International Legal Standarts of Women’s Rights Protection

Student: Vershilovich Tatyana

Educational Programme: Jurisprudence (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This research provides a survey of the contemporary international legal framework on women’s rights protection: the substantive law, which determines legal status of a woman, and the procedural law, which establishes the judicial mechanism to uphold the legislation. The study aims to determine the definitive legal measures, which are needed to be taken, in order to combat gender-based violence, trafficking in women and other discriminatory wrongdoings. In order to achieve the stated purpose, the variety of methods are employed, including the general scientific methods of the cognitive activity (namely, the dialectic and historical approaches, and the method of synthesis) and the techniques only employed within the scope of the juristic research (i.e. the comparative legal analysis and the technical legal method).

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