State Responsibility for Violations of Women's Human Rights

This article explores how developments in the international law of state responsibility can be applied to ensure more effective protection of women's human rights. Part II explores the scope of state responsibility and discusses the advantages of using feminist legal methods, empirical data, and documentation of actual abuses to expose violations of human rights. Part III explores how to redress violations under the traditional law of state responsibility, and how to strengthen supportive legal doctrines to prevent, remedy, and punish violations. Part IV focuses on the particular challenges of holding states responsible for violations of the human rights of women and the development of appropriate criteria for determining responsibility. Finally, the author reviews the means by which states limit legal responsibility for violations of women's human rights. [Descriptors: Applying Human Rights Law - International, International]