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Can International Law Secure Women’s Health? an Examination of CEDAW and its Optional Protocol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya
Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya*
Affiliation:
Health Law and Policy, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine; Medical Jurisprudence, Southern Illinois University School of Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 103 , 2009 , pp. 471 - 473
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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References

1 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (“CEDAW”), G.A. Res. 34/180, Annex, U.N. Doc. A/RES/34/46/Annex (Dec. 18, 1979).

2 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (“Protocol”), U.N. Doc. A/54/49 (Oct. 15, 1999).

3 Id. art. 2.

4 Id.

5 Id. art. 6.

6 Id. art. 5(1).

7 Compilation of Rules of Procedure Adopted of Human Rights Treaty Bodies, HRI/GEN/3/Add. 1 (Apr. 18, 2002); see also CEDAW, supra note 1, art. 22.

8 Bhattacharya, Dhrubajyoti, The Perils of Simultaneous Adjudication and Consultation: Using the Optional Protocol to CEDAW to Secure Women’s Health, Women’s Rights L. Rep.___(2009) (forthcoming)Google Scholar.