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Introductory Remarks by Stephanie Ortoleva

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Stephanie Ortoleva*
Affiliation:
ASIL’s International Disability Rights Interest Group; Women Enabled

Abstract

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Type
Forgotten Sisters: Violence Against Women with Disabilities—Human Rights Law and Complex Identity Status
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, UN Doc. A/HRC/17/26 (May 2, 2011) (by Rashida Manjoo), available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A-HRC-17-26.pdf.

2 Reem Bahdi, Women’s Access to Justice in the Mena (Middle East and North Africa) Region (Oct. 31, 2007), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1716864.

3 Judith Resnik & Dennis E. Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (2011) (description and resources available at http://documents.law.yale.edu/representing-justice).

4 Id. at 91.

5 Convention on the Elimination of Au Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Dec. 18, 1979, 1249U.N.T.S. 13.

6 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Jan. 24, 2007, UN Doc. A/RES/61/106.