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Acknowledgements
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Preface: Macarena Sáez
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Introduction: Juan E. Méndez
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Foreword: Dubravka Šimonović
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I. Gender-Based Violence: State Responsibility
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The Vital Voices Justice Institute: Helping States Combat Gender-Based Violence
Gigi Scoles and Anupama Selvam
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Reparations for Sexual and Other Gender-Based Violence
Carla Ferstman
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How Non-State Torture is Gendered and Invisibilized: Canada’s Non-Compliance with the
Committee Against Torture's Recommendations
Jackie Jones, Jeanne Sarson, and Linda MacDonald
57
The Importance of Investigating Torture Against Women and Girls by Non-State Actors:
Applicable Legal Standards from International Human Rights Law
Teresa Fernández Paredes
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II. Gender and Sexuality as the Basis for Specific Harms
89
Murdered in the Name of “Honor”
Aisha K. Gill
105
Female Genital Mutilation as a Form of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment": Intersections with the Migration Context
Els Leye and Ino Kehrer
123
Pregnancy and Virginity Testing in Educational Settings and the Torture and Other
Ill-Treatment Framework
Esther Major
139
Forced Contraception as a Means of Torture
Christie J. Edwards
161
The Humanisation of Women: A Work in Progress
Purna Sen
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Gendering the Lens: Critical Reflections on Gender, Hospitality and Torture
Mauro Cabral Grinspan and Morgan Carpenter
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