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  1. James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 18.

  2. Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 12. Hereafter I will refer to this text as IHR.

  3. IHR, p. 102.

  4. IHR, p. 160.

  5. IHR, p. 161.

  6. IHR, p. 102.

  7. IHR, p. 137.

  8. IHR, p. 42.

  9. Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 126.

  10. IHR, p. 140.

  11. IHR, p. 187.

  12. UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), CEDAW General Recommendations Nos. 19 and 20, adopted at the Eleventh Session, 1992 (contained in Document A/47/38), 1992, A/47/38, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/453882a422.html [accessed 2 May 2013].

  13. IHR, p. 190.

  14. IHR, p. 187.

  15. IHR, pp. 102–103.

  16. IHR, p. 190.

  17. IHR, p. 84.

  18. IHR, pp. 193–194.

  19. IHR, p. 194.

  20. Ibid.

  21. IHR, p. 191.

  22. IHR, p. 194.

  23. IHR, p. 196.

  24. IHR, p. 188.

  25. Helen Keleher and Lucinda Franklin, “Changing gendered norms about women and girls at the level of household and community: A review of the evidence,” Background paper prepared for the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (Geneva: WHO, 2007), p. 10.

  26. Susan Watts, “The impact on women of changes in personal status law in Tunisia,” Case study prepared for the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (Geneva: WHO, 2007), p. 5.

  27. See also UN Women, Financing for Gender Equity, http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/women_poverty_economics/financing.php [accessed 7 July 2011].

  28. CSDH, Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008), p. 16. Henceforth, CSDH.

  29. Material in this and the following paragraphs draws from Kristen Hessler, “What Can Human Rights Do for Women’s Health?,” in Michael Freeman (ed.), Law and Global Health (Oxford University Press, 2013).

  30. CSDH, p. 16.

  31. See CSDH, Ch. 13, “Gender Equity.”

  32. Keleher and Franklin, pp. 14–15.

  33. Keleher and Franklin, p. 15.

  34. IHR, p. 194.

  35. IHR, p. 33.

  36. IHR, p. 32.

  37. IHR, p. 33.

  38. Helen Stacy, “Equality and difference: Regional courts and women’s human rights,” Stanford Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series, Research Paper 94, 2004, p. 9.

  39. Ibid.

  40. IHR, p. 34.

  41. IHR, p. 34.

  42. IHR, p. 39.

  43. IHR, p. 195.

  44. IHR, p. 102.

  45. Alison Jaggar. “‘Saving Amina’: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue,” Ethics and International Affairs 19 (2005), p. 61.

  46. IHR, p. 190.

  47. Jaggar, “Saving Amina.”

  48. Jaggar, “Saving Amina,” p. 69.

  49. CSDH, p. 145.

  50. CSDH, p. 149.

  51. IHR, p. 188.

  52. IHR, pp. 101–102.

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For helpful comments on earlier drafts, I thank Allen Buchanan, Brad Armour-Garb, Lisa Fuller, Jon Mandle, Gopal Sreenivasan, and an anonymous reviewer for this journal.

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Hessler, K. Hard Cases: Philosophy, Public Health, and Women’s Human Rights. J Value Inquiry 47, 375–390 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-013-9389-6

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