• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 10: Violence against Women and Girls

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Key terms
  • Topic 1 - Ending violence against women
  • Topic 2 - Human rights approaches to violence against women
  • Topic 3 - Who has rights in this situation? Prosecuting domestic violence and sexual violence - a human rights approach
  • Topic 4 - What about the men? Transforming stereotypes and acting in solidarity to end discrimination and violence for everyone
  • Topic 5 - Local, regional and global solutions to violence against women and girls
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in July 2019; revised in December 2020
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

Core reading

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• CEDAW Committee (1992). General Recommendation No. 19 on Violence Against Women. CEDAW/C/GC/19.
• United Nations (1993). Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women , GA Resolution 48/104. New York: UN.  » The above two documents are the start of the project to consider violence against women as a human rights issue.
• CEDAW Committee (2017). General recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women. CEDAW/C/GC/35. This is the updated version of General Recommendation 19. It identifies violence against women as a breach of customary international law - among the most basic rules which apply to all States.
• CEDAW Committee (from 1986 onwards). General Recommendations.
• Chimamanda, Ngozi Adichie (2017). Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Knopf Publishing Group.
• Copelon, Rhonda (2012). End Torture, End Domestic Violence . Online: On the Issues Magazine.  » This is an open-access version of Rhonda Copelon's challenge to the international human rights framework, to take violence against women by non-State actors seriously: this was the opening chapter in feminist organizing to eradicate violence against women, through creative use of international human rights law.

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