Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- 1. Women's International Human Rights Law: The Way Forward -- II. Challenges -- 2. To Bellow like a Cow: Women, Ethnicity, and the Discourse of Rights -- 3. What are "Women's International Human Rights"? -- 4. State Responsibility Goes Private: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law -- 5. Intimate Terror: Understanding Domestic Violence as Torture -- 6. Why Rethinking the Sovereign State is Important for Women's International Human Rights Law -- III. International and Regional Approaches -- 7. State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Laws -- 8. Toward More Effective Enforcement of Women's Human Rights Through the Use of International Human Rights Law and Procedures -- 9. State Accountability Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- 10. Toward a More Effective Guarantee of the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Women in the Inter-American System -- 11. Toward a More Effective Guarantee of Women's Rights in the African Human Rights System -- 12. African Women's Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights-Toward a Relevant Theory and Practice -- 13. Domestic Violence as an International Human Rights Issue -- 14. The Developing Approaches of the International Commission of Jurists to Women's Human Rights -- IV. National Approaches -- 15. General Approaches to Domestic Application of Women's International Human Rights Law -- 16. Obstacles to Women's Rights in India -- 17. Challenges to the Application of International Women's Human Rights in the Sudan -- 18. The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Women's International Human Rights: The Example of Ghana -- 19. Canadian Approaches to Equality Rights and Gender Equity in the Courts.

V. Guaranteeing Human Rights of Particular Significance to Women -- 20. Equality in the Home: Women's Rights and Personal Laws in South Asia -- 21. Using the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights to Secure Women's Access to Land in Africa -- 22. Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: The Colombian Case -- 23. The Use of International Human Rights Norms to Combat Violence Against Women -- Appendix A. Chart of Ratifications of Selected Human Rights Instruments -- Appendix B. Model Communication Form -- Appendix C. Organizational Resources -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.