Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice

"An extraordinary account of the complex articulations of bureaucracy, policy, and local culture around the issue of violence against women. . . . A convincing argument for taking seriously the notion of local cultures and provides a model for how context, translation, values, and the particulars of social and institutional life can be given consideration." —Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly...