1. Gender Violence - A Human Rights Violation
This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender violence became a human rights violation articulated in formal documents of international law, this chapter discusses one of the most important new issues in the gender violence and human rights field, that of the trafficking of sex workers. ... The need for intervention was widely recognized in the nations of the global South as well as the North (eg., Ofei-Aboagye 1994). ... The Vienna Declarat...
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