Gender Equality and the Judiciary: Using International Human Rights Standards to Promote the Human Rights of Women and the Girl-Child at the National Level

This book is a collection of papers presented at the Caribbean Regional Judicial Colloquium in Georgetown, Guyana in 1997.It includes an overview of the application of international human rights standards; the challenges of this application of international standards; how international human rights standards can be used to promote the rights of women and the girl child in domestic litigation. It presents useful actual experiences of judges and experts, and highlights case laws to demonstrate how international standards can successfully advance women’s interests in national courts.