Women’s
Human Rights Cases*
To aid feminist
advocates in the use of international human rights treaties
in litigation, IWRAW Asia Pacific has compiled a number of cases
that use and interpret international human rights treaties.
These have been chosen based on their relevance to issues of
gender equality. Also, all share a positive outcome for women’s
rights and equality.
Involving
the use of international human rights treaties by various courts
on many different levels, the cases fall into three basic categories:
