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This article explores the inadequacy of international human rights discourse to effectively engage with the rights of indigenous women. It refers to two documents that confer rights on indigenous womenthe United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (2007); and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (1979)and argues that, despite these internationally recognized documents, indigenous women's rights continue to be given inadequate attention at both international and local

This article argues that Opuz v Turkey marks a shift in the European Court of Human Rights' approach to gender-based violence. Prior to Opuz, the Court consistently addressed cases of sexual violence through a State duty to secure rights between private individuals, not through a discrimination analysis. In Opuz, the Court relied in part on the prohibition of discrimination in Article 14, and thus has serious implications for the ways in which States must deal with domestic violence cases.

Patricia Londono, Developing Human Rights Principles in Cases of Gender-based Violence: