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6 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 195 (1993)
International Human Rights and Violence against Women

handle is hein.journals/hhrj6 and id is 201 raw text is: Recent Developments Pamela Goldberg* Nancy Kelly** INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN According to official government statistics, there have been 11,259 dowry-related murders in India in the last three years A detailed, country-wide survey in Colombia reveals that one in three women has been emotionally or verbally abused by her partner, one in five has been physically abused, and one in ten has been raped by a partner .... Battering is the greatest single cause of injury among women in the USA, accounting for more emergency room visits than auto accidents, muggings, and rape combined.1 In recent years, scholars and advocates have criticized human rights law for its failure to accord protection to women facing gender-based violence.2 Although physical abuse of women is pervasive, cutting across cultural, class, and economic lines, traditional concepts of hu- man rights have developed within a public, male-dominated frame- work which does not recognize the experiences of women as women.3 * Full-time Adjunct Professor of Law, City University of New York Law School; B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1978; J.D., New York Law School, 1982. ** Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School; Consulting Attorney, Women's Refugee Project, Cambridge & Somerville Legal Services; B.A., University of Massa- chusetts, 1975; J.D., Northeastern University, 1984. 1. FACT SHEET ON: GENDER VIOLENCE, A STATISTICS FOR ACTION FACT SHEET (Interna- tional Women's Tribune Center/United Nations Development Fund for Women Resource Centre, New York, N.Y.), Oct. 1992, at 1-2 (citations omitted). 2. See Charlotte Bunch, Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Revision of Human Rights, 12 HuM. RTs. Q. 486 (1990); Hilary Charlesworth et al., Feminist Approaches to International Law, 85 Aas. J. INT'L L. 613 (1991); Riane Eisler, Toward an Integrated Theory of Action, 9 HUM. RTs. Q. 287 (1987); A. Byrnes, Women, Feminism and International Human Rights Lau- Methodological Myopia, Fundamental Flaws or Meaningful Marginalisation? Some Current Issues, 12 AusT. Y.B. INT'L L. 205 (1992). 3. Eisler, supra note 2, at 289; Bunch, supra note 2, at 7-8.

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