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Violence, law, and women's rights in South Asia

Title
  1. Violence, law, and women's rights in South Asia / edited by Savitri Goonesekere.
Published by
  1. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2004.

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Additional authors
  1. Goonesekere, Savitri.
Description
  1. 352 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Violence, law & women's rights in South Asia
Subject
  1. Women > Crimes against > Law and legislation > South Asia
  2. Abused women > Legal status, laws, etc. > South Asia
  3. 71.65 criminality as a social problem
  4. Women > Crimes against > Law and legislation
  5. Abused women > Legal status, laws, etc
  6. Frau
  7. Gewalttätigkeit
  8. Recht
  9. Verbrechensopfer
  10. Vrouwenmishandeling
  11. Rechtsstelsels
  12. women
  13. womens rights
  14. violence
  15. legislation
  16. application
  17. law reform
  18. judicial procedure
  19. judicial decision
  20. family law
  21. cultural factor
  22. sex discrimination
  23. sexual harassment
  24. femmes
  25. droits de la femme
  26. législation
  27. réforme législative
  28. procédure judiciaire
  29. décision judiciaire
  30. droit de la famille
  31. facteur culturel
  32. discrimination fondée sur le sexe
  33. harcèlement sexuel
  34. mujeres
  35. derechos de la mujer
  36. violencia
  37. legislación
  38. aplicación
  39. reforma legislativa
  40. procedimiento judicial
  41. sentencia judicial
  42. derecho de familia
  43. factor cultural
  44. discriminación por razones de sexo
  45. acoso sexual
  46. South Asia
  47. Südasien
  48. India
  49. Pakistan
  50. Sri Lanka
  51. Inde
  52. Pakistán
Genre/Form
  1. comment.
  2. commentaire.
  3. comentario.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-339) and index.