Closing the gap in international human rights law: lessons from three regional human rights systems on legal standards and practices regarding violence against women 2015, para. 62
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As noted above, the three regional human rights systems have developed legally binding instruments and have set up mechanisms to address women's human rights broadly, and in the case of the European and Inter-American systems, specific instruments have been adopted to address the issue of violence against women. These systems have been developed based on regional needs and understandings and on lessons learned from the international system, including the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Human Rights Council and other United Nations human rights mechanisms, and from each of the regional systems themselves. Unfortunately, the lack of, or minimal, development within other regions of the world on legally binding normative frameworks on women's human rights and violence against women is a source of concern.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences