2013 Women & Justice Conference Resources

Reports by the special rapporteur on violence against women

• The State Responsibility to End Violence Against Women 

• The Due Diligence Standard as a Tool for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Relevant Case Law

• Opuz v. Turkey (ECHR)

• MC v. Bulgaria (ECHR) 

• Bevacqua v. Bulgaria (ECHR) 

• Kontrova v. Slovakia (ECHR) 

• Osman v. United Kingdom (ECHR) 

• Goekce v. Turkey (CEDAW) 

• Yildirim v. Austria (CEDAW) 

• AT v. Hungary (CEDAW) 

•  Velasquez Rodriguez v. Honduras (Inter-American Court) 

• Gonzales and others (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico (Inter-American Court) 

• Rosendo Cantu v. Mexico (Inter-American Court) 

• Raquel Martín de Mejía v. Peru (Inter-American Commission) 

• Maria de Penha v Brazil (Inter-American Commission) 

• Jessica Gonzales v. United States (Inter-American Commission)  

• INTERIGHTS and EIPR (on behalf of Sabbah and Others) v. Egypt (African Commission)

• CK v. Commissioner of Police (Kenya)  

• Carmichele v Minister of Safety and Security (South Africa)

• Van Eeden v. Minister of Safety and Security (South Africa)

• Delhi Hugh Court Bar Association v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi (India) 

• Sajid Ali v. State & Ors (India)

Human Rights Instruments & UN reports

• CEDAW General Recommendation 19 

• CEDAW General Recommendation 28 

• CEDAW General Recommendation 30

• CAT General Comment 2 

• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women 

• Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 

• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 

• Great Lakes Protocol on the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence Against Children

other resources

• Avon Global Center Women & Justice Collection

• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 

• Women's Link Worldwide's General Justice Observatory 

• The Advocates for Human Rights, Stop  Violence Against Women 

• The Advocates for Human Rights, Issues Affecting Women 

• Judge John M. Leventhal, "Spousal Rights or Spousal Crimes," Utah Law Review

• Shani M. King, The Hague Convention and Domestic Violence 

• National Judicial Education Program, Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided in an Adult Victim Sexual Assault Case

• National Judicial Education Program, Raped or "Seduced"? How Language Helps Shape Our Response to Sexual Violence

• National Judicial Education Program, Materials and Resources on Adult Victim Sexual Assault

• National Judicial Education Program web course on Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases 

• Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse (Louise McOrmond-Plummer, Patricia Easteal, & Jennifer Y. Levy-Peck, eds) 

• Justice Anita Allen, The Bahamian Government's  international obligation to prevent violence against women, measures taken by the government to comply with the same, along with additional comments about the role of judges in preventing the violence against women