1. Gender Violence - A Human Rights Violation
Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. 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 viol...
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