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...