Contents
10.3 Diversion and consent of the child ...............................................................432
11. The Child as Victim or Witness in Judicial Proceedings............................433
12. The Child and His or Her Parents: When Separation May be
Justified ..............................................................................................................436
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
The best interests of the child ........................................................................436
The grounds justifying separation..................................................................436
The legal safeguards.........................................................................................437
The child’s right to remain in contact with his or her parents ..................438
13. The Rights of the Child and Adoption Proceedings ..................................439
14. The Role of Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers in Guaranteeing the
Rights of the Child in the Course of the Administration of Justice.........442
15. Concluding Remarks .......................................................................................443
Chapter 11
Women’s Rights in the Administration of Justice ............445
Learning Objectives.................................................................................................445
Questions ..................................................................................................................445
Relevant Legal Instruments....................................................................................446
1.
Introduction......................................................................................................447
2.
Women’s Right to Legal Personality.............................................................449
3.
Women’s Right to Equality Before the Law and Equal
Protection of the Law......................................................................................450
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.
Women’s Right to Respect for their Life and their Physical and
Mental Integrity ................................................................................................458
4.1
4.2
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The Charter of the United Nations and the International Bill of
Human Rights...................................................................................................450
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 1979...........................................................450
Regional human rights treaties .......................................................................453
The meaning of the principle of gender equality and
non-discrimination between women and men ............................................453
3.4.1 The general meaning of equality and non-discrimination ............................454
3.4.2 The meaning of equality between women and men......................................454
Relevant legal provisions.................................................................................458
The right to life.................................................................................................461
4.2.1 Abduction and murder.............................................................................461
4.2.2 Dowry violence and “honour” killings.......................................................462
4.2.3 Female genital mutilation .........................................................................463
Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers