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Violence, law, and women's rights in South Asia
- Title
- Violence, law, and women's rights in South Asia / edited by Savitri Goonesekere.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Goonesekere, Savitri.
- Description
- 352 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Critically analyses the law and law enforcement in three South Asian countries, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in order to assess the response of the criminal justice system to violence against women.
- Alternative Title
- Violence, law & women's rights in South Asia
- Subject
- Women > Crimes against > Law and legislation > South Asia
- Abused women > Legal status, laws, etc. > South Asia
- 71.65 criminality as a social problem
- Women > Crimes against > Law and legislation
- Abused women > Legal status, laws, etc
- Frau
- Gewalttätigkeit
- Recht
- Verbrechensopfer
- Vrouwenmishandeling
- Rechtsstelsels
- women
- womens rights
- violence
- legislation
- application
- law reform
- judicial procedure
- judicial decision
- family law
- cultural factor
- sex discrimination
- sexual harassment
- femmes
- droits de la femme
- législation
- réforme législative
- procédure judiciaire
- décision judiciaire
- droit de la famille
- facteur culturel
- discrimination fondée sur le sexe
- harcèlement sexuel
- mujeres
- derechos de la mujer
- violencia
- legislación
- aplicación
- reforma legislativa
- procedimiento judicial
- sentencia judicial
- derecho de familia
- factor cultural
- discriminación por razones de sexo
- acoso sexual
- South Asia
- Südasien
- India
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
- Inde
- Pakistán
- Genre/Form
- comment.
- commentaire.
- comentario.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-339) and index.
- Contents
- Overview : reflections on violence against women and the legal systems of some South Asian countries / Savitri Goonesekere -- Violence against women and the Indian law / Kirti Singh -- Violence against women : the legal systems and institutional responses in Pakistan / Hina Jilani and Eman M. Ahmed -- Sri Lanka : the law's response to women victims of violence / Shyamala Gomez and Mario Gomez.
- ISBN
- 0761997962
- 9780761997962
- 0761997970
- 9780761997979
- 8178292734
- 9788178292731
- 8178292742
- 9788178292748
- LCCN
- 2003024430
- OCLC
- ocm53443133
- 53443133
- SCSB-1337650
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library