International Women's Rights Law

This course will provide students with a foundation for understanding the international human rights system and examine how women’s rights pose particular challenges and opportunities for the realization of human rights and social justice. Attention will be paid to women’s experience of human rights violations as gendered. The course will explore issues of cultural relativism, gender mainstreaming and the intersectionality of rights, Aboriginal women’s rights, women’s health, women and religion, violence against women and women and governance.