Women International Law Part 1

THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY-ADDRESSING WOMEN’S POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE
Beth Goldblatt
South African Journal on Human Rights
Volume 25, Part 3, 2009 p.442

Women in South Africa are generally poorer than men and more vulnerable. They perform the bulk of the caring functions in society, usually without remuneration. Their greater need is reflected in their disproportionate use of the social assistance system. This system is evaluated in terms of the right to social security contained in South Africa’s Bill of Rights. The right is explored, interpreted and developed from a feminist legal perspective. The categories of reformism, feminist critique and utopianism are used to ‘engender’ the right. International law, as well as the emerging jurisprudence on the right to social security, is considered in the reconceptualisation of the right. This article briefly discusses some of the gender dimensions of each of South Africa’s three, largest social assistance grants-the Old Age Pension, Child Support Grant and Disability Grant. It points to some of the areas of research and future examination that would assist those attempting to expand the meaning and reach of the right to social security so that it is able to help everyone in South Africa, and in particular, poor women to ‘improve their quality of life’ and ‘free their potential’.

WOMEN AND THE RIGHT TO WORK
Carole Cooper
South African Journal on Human Rights
Volume 25, Part 3, 2009 p.573

Women in South Africa experience high levels of poverty, as they are forced to eke out a living on the margins of society. Main drivers of this poverty are unemployment and low-waged. menial work. Many women are found in non-standard or precarious forms of employment, including work in the informal economy, and fall outside the protection of labour law. ? major factor contributing to this unenviable position is the double-working day phenomenon-a fimction of women’s gender. Women spend inordinate amounts of time in reproductive and subsistence functions for the family and community and this often acts as a barrier to their ability to compete with men in the job market, including job creation schemes. The article addresses the question whether a constitutional right to work is necessary to address the preca?ous position of women in the workforce, thereby alleviating their poverty-an essential prerequisite for social justice. It analyses three forms of the right-the right to work as provision of a job, the right of access to inputs to enable women to find work, and the right to protection at work. These conceptualisations of the right are assessed in the context of international law and applied to the current position of women in the labour force. The article concludes that a right to work could play a valuable role in alleviating the plight of women, both in terms of the provision of ???k and access to work. Insofar as current labour law is unable fully to protect women in ???k, a right to work could also address those lacuna.

The Women Question in International Law
Hilary CHARLESWORTH
Asian Journal of International Law
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2011 p.33-38

Sex Trafficking via the Internet: How International Agreements Address the Problem and Fail to Go Far Enough
Erin I. Kunze
Journal of High Technology Law
Volume 10, Number 2, 2010

The Internet, and ease of communication and commercial transactions it offers, has increasingly facilitated the trafficking of women and children around the globe. At the same time, the borderless nature of the Internet allows criminals to exploit women and children from around the world, without regard to domestic law or domestic law enforcement. Kunze argues that international Internet regulation is necessary to fully achieve the goals of the United Nations ProLaw Journal / Law Reviewol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and to achieve the goals of countries including the United States, Canada and Australia in reducing, preventing, and prosecuting those who sexually exploit women and children with the aid of computer systems.

Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn (eds): The Legal Tender of Gender: Law, Welfare and the Regulation of Women’s Poverty, Onati International Series in Law and Society, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010, xiii + 294 pp, price £22 (PB), ISBN: 9781841133157
Helen Carr
Feminist Legal Studies
Volume 18, Number 2, August 2010 p.191-194

The Human Rights of Minority Women: Romani Women’s Rights from a Perspective on International Human Rights Law and Politics
Ravnbà¸l, Camilla Ida
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights
Volume 17, Number 1, 2010 p.1-45

Niaz A. Shah, Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: The Experience of Pakistan
Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Human Rights Law Review
Volume 10, Number 2, June 2010 p.387-390

Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko – Women, Islam and international law within the context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Nazreen Shaik-Peremanov
South African Yearbook of International Law
Volume 33, 2008 p.321

Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: The Experience of Pakistan, by Niaz A. Shah
Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Human Rights Quarterly
Volume 31, Number 4, November 2009 p.1155

Exchanging Rapists: The Rape of Sudanese Women in Chadian Refugee Camps: Who should be Held Responsible under International Law?
Debra Lefing
Gonzaga Journal of International Law
Volume 12, Issue 2, 2008-2009

Access to International Criminal Justice For Victims of Violence Against Women Under International Family Law
Mohamed Y. Mattar
Emory International Law Review
Volume 23, Number 1, 2009 p.141

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