Women Violation in Australia: A Case Study Using CEDAW Instrument

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WOMEN VIOLATION IN AUSTRALIA
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WOMEN VIOLATION IN AUSTRALIA
This paper discusses the case study’ Women Violence in Australia” using one human
rights instrument, “convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
(CEDAW’).” The first part of the essay presents the case (women violation in Australia) and
relate it to the specific section of CEDAW that has been breached.
Women Violation:
Women Violation (domestic violence), once, hidden crime, has lately surfaced as a
mainstream criminal justice matter in Australia. Instances like Queensland man Gerard Baden-
Clay’s murder of his spouse Allison and Luke Batty’s death in Vitoria at his father’s hand have
subsequently attracted unexpected media attention and placed the specter of women violation
strongly back in the limelight. The question is, “how prevalent is women violation and what cost
to the society of Australia?”
Since the acknowledgment in Australia in the 1980s, the idea of domestic violence and its
resulting harms has evolved into a complicated criminal justice matter. From its fundamental
origin of being physical violence between spouses, the relationship definition captured is
presently broad and varied. For instance, in Queensland, domestic violence legislation captures
intimate personal relationship. This encompasses spouse of opposite or same gender, engaged
persons, in a de facto affair, are married, and any partner who was in the kind of the above-
highlighted relationships (García-Moreno et al. 2015).
Women violation further extends to the family relationship between 2 persons as well as
informal cate relationships, marred with an individual being reliant on another for assistance with
necessary daily chores. The kinds of harm resulting from domestic women violation have further
advanced into increasingly mature impacts (Wotipka and Ramirez 2008). Sexual, physical,