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Piercing the Family’s Private Veil: Family Violence, International Human Rights, and the Cross‐Cultural Record
Author(s) -
Levesque Roger
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9930.00070
Subject(s) - human rights , interpersonal violence , international law , domestic violence , law , international human rights law , family law , political science , state (computer science) , public international law , international action , sociology , law and economics , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , algorithm , computer science , environmental health
International law does not take family violence seriously enough. Although reviews and commentaries of international law regularly ignore family violence, such violence increasingly becomes a central concern of modern international treaties and plans of action. This article details how international law, which still tends to limit itself to inter‐state behavior, seeks to transform local cultural practices and forms of interpersonal relations that lead to family violence. Although these developments largely remain in their infancy, the article proposes that international human rights developments are both legitimate and necessary.