A/HRC/29/27
Advance Edited Version
Distr.: General
10 June 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-ninth session
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,mpolitical, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo*
Contents
Paragraphs Page
I. Introduction............................................................................................................ 1 3
II. Activities............... 2–5 3
A. Country visits.................................................................................................... 2 3
B. Reports to the General Assembly and to the Commission on the Status
of Women.................................................................................................... 3–4 3
C. Consultations and other activities...................................................................... 5 4
III. Closing the gap in international human rights law: lessons from three regional
human rights systems on legal standards and practices
regarding violence against women...................................................................... 6–61 4
A. Introduction..................................................................................................... 6 4
B. United Nations resolutions and reports on regional cooperation.................... 7–8 4
C. African human rights system........................................................................ 9–27 5
D. European human rights system.................................................................. 28–47 9
E. Inter-American human rights system......................................................... 48–61 14
IV. Conclusion........................................................................................................ 62–65 19
To access FULL 20-Page Special Rapporteur Report, go to http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session29/Pages/ListReports.aspx.
Извор: WUNRN – 17.06.2015
