Violence against Women in South Africa: State Response to Domestic Violence and Rape
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/092405199601400128 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
NQHR
1/1996
The central question in this Ph.D. thesis is: How do courts establish the scope of human
rights? In order to answer this question two propositions have been formulated to serve
as a point
of
departure. The first proposition postulates that: 'There is a relation between
establishing the scope of human rights and restricting their exercise'. The second
proposition reads: 'The relation between establishing the scope of human rights and
restricting their exercise causes tension between court practice with respect to establishing
the scope
of
rights and restricting them on the one hand and the legislators' reasoning
underpinning the system
of
limitation on the other'. By studying both the reasoning behind
the system of limitation
of
the European Convention
of
Human Rights and that
of
the
Netherlands Constitution of 1983 and the legal practice with regard to a number
of
rights
guaranteed in these instruments, the author attempts to prove the validity of the
propositions and to answer the central question of this dissertation.
Violence against women in South Africa :state response to domestic violence
and
rape.
- Nowrojee, Binaifer ; Manby, Bronwen. - Human Rights Watch. HRW/Africa. - New
York: HRW, 1995. - 132 p.
ISBN: 1-56432-162-2
In this report Human Rights Watch denounces widespread violence against women in
South Africa. There are government initiatives to reform the criminal justice system,
including a specialized sex offenses court and rape reporting centres in
some,
local police
stations. According to HRW however, the positive effect of these efforts is undercut by
the lack of a coordinated national strategy. HRW calls on the new government to establish
such a strategy, to ensure that policy changes are implemented throughout the criminal
justice, health and welfare systems.
Books received
By the sweat
and
toil
of
children:
the use
of
child labor in U.S. agricultural imports &
forced
and
bonded child labor. -International Child Labor Study Group. - Washington:
US Department
of
Labor. International Child Labor Study Group, 1995. - 210 p.
Denial
and
acknowledgement: the impact
of
information about human rights violations.
- Cohen, Stanley. - Jerusalem: Hebrew University. Center for Human Rights, 1995. - vi,
216 p.
Human rights yearbook 1994 : Burma. -
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Thein (comp.). - Bangkok: Human Rights
Documentation Unit, 1995. - 516 p.
Nouvelles formes de discrimination =New forms
of
discrimination. -Sicilianos,
Linos-Alexandre (ed.). - Paris: A. Pedone, 1995. - 310 p.
ISBN: 2-233-281-4
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