Dr Ingrid Westendorp (I.)

Ingrid Westendorp is an expert on Economic, Social and Cultural human rights, particularly the right to adequate housing and the right to land. She studies these rights from a woman and law perspective.

Study on Mail Order Brides at the request of the European Parliament, April - July 2016 

Publications in Metis >>

Refereed articles

- ‘Personal Status Law and Women’s Right to Equality in Law and in Practice: The Case of Land Rights of Balinese Hindu Women’, in: Journal of Human Rights Practice, Vol. 7 (3), OUP, November 2015, pp. 430-450

- ‘Housing Rights and Related Facilities for Female Refugees and Internally Displaced Women’, in: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 19/4, 2001, pp. 403-415

Non-refereed articles

’15 years United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: Lessons learned and the way forward’, in: Mimbar Hukum Journal, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, June 2010, pp. 201-223

‘Huisvesting en Vrouwen; Zijn er ook problemen in Nederland?’ in: NJCM-Bulletin, Nr. 3, april/mei 2008, pp. 329- 344

‘Een huis voor je zelf; Het recht op behoorlijke huisvesting van vrouwen nader beschouwd’, in: Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, Nr. 4, 2008, pp. 26-36

‘ Haven or Hell? The Effect of Domestic Violence on Women’s Human Rights’ in: AFLA Quarterly, July-September 2003, pp. 8-14

Books

- (co-author and editor) Legal Aspects of Land Rights and the Use of Land in Asia, Africa, and Europe, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland, to be published in 2016

- (co-author and editor) The Women’s Convention Turned 30: Achievements, Setbacks, and Prospects, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland, 2012 (509 pp)

- (co-editor with M. Draaisma, P. van Dijk, and C. Flinterman) International Law, Human Rights, 6th rev. ed., SDU, Den Haag, 2012 (583 pp)

- Women and Housing: Gender Makes a Difference, Intersentia, Antwerp-Oxford, 2007 (399 pp)

- (co-author and co-editor with R. Wolleswinkel) Violence in the domestic sphere, Intersentia, Antwerp, 2005 (201 pp)

- (co-author and co-editor with F. Coomans, F. Grünfeld, J. Willems) Rendering Justice to the Vulnerable; Liber Amicorum in Honour of Theo van Boven, Kluwer Law International, The Hague-London-Boston, 2000 (352 pp)

- (co-editor with F. Coomans,C. Flinterman, F. Grünfeld, J. Willems)  Human Rights from Exclusion to Inclusion; Principles and Practice, An Anthology from the Work of Theo van Boven, Kluwer Law International, The Hague/London/Boston, 2000 (503 pp)

- (co-author and co-editor with A. Coomans and A.W. Heringa) De toenemende betekenis van economische, sociale en culturele mensenrechten, NJCM Boekerij, Leiden, 1994

Book chapters

- Together with Elin Hilwig: ‘Women’s right to land: A comparison between customary laws in Bali (Indonesia) and in Acholi (Uganda)’, in: Legal Aspects of Land Rights and the Use of Land in Asia, Africa, and Europe, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland, to be published in 2016

 

- ‘Using Culture to Achieve Equality’, in: Stephanie Farrior (ed.), Equality and Non-Discrimination Under International Law, Chapter 18 in Vol. II, Ashgate, Farnham-Burlington, 2015, pp. 569 – 589

- ‘Introduction’, Chapter 1, in: The Women’s Convention Turned 30: Achievements, Setbacks, and Prospects, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland, 2012, pp. 1-12

- Together with Antonia Waltermann: ‘The Essence of Discrimination Against Women: An Interpretation by CEDAW and the European Union’, Chapter 3 in: The Women’s Convention Turned 30: Achievements, Setbacks, and Prospects, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland, 2012, pp. 33-63

- ‘Using Culture to Achieve Equality’, Chapter 6 in: The Women’s Convention Turned 30: Achievements, Setbacks, and Prospects, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland, 2012, pp. 111-131

- ‘Rural Women’s Right to Land and Housing in Times of Urbanization’, Chapter 15 in: The Women’s Convention Turned 30: Achievements, Setbacks, and Prospects, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Portland, 2012, pp. 325-339

- ‘Women’s Housing Rights: Is anything wrong with the international norm?’, Chapter 2 in: Patricia Kennett & Chan Kam-Wah (eds.), Women and Housing: An International Analysis, Routledge, Abingdon Oxon, 2010, pp. 11-21

- ‘Vrouwen en huisvesting: een kwestie van cultuur’, in: Een kwestie van grensoverschrijding: Liber Amicorum voor Paul Janssen, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, 2009, pp. 397-412

- ‘If home is no haven: women’s right to adequate housing in cases of domestic violence’, in: I. Westendorp and R. Wolleswinkel eds., Violence in the domestic sphere, Intersentia, Antwerp, 2005, pp. 123-142

- ‘Double Discrimination; Racism and Sexism Combined’, in: F. Coomans, F. Grünfeld, I. Westendorp, J. Willems eds., Rendering Justice to the Vulnerable; Liber Amicorum in Honour of Theo van Boven, Kluwer Law International, The Hague-London-Boston, 2000, pp. 299-310

- ‘Internationale implementatie van het recht op behoorlijke huisvesting’, in: F. Coomans, A.W. Heringa, I. Westendorp eds., De toenemende betekenis van economische, sociale en culturele mensenrechten, NJCM Boekerij, Leiden, 1994, pp. 100-115

Other

- Book review: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: The Practice of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, dissertation by Fleur van Leeuwen, Intersentia, 2010, in: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
Vol. 4, December 2011, pp. 591-595.

- Annotatie: EHRM 9 juni 2009, nr. 33401/02, Opuz tegen Turkije; Huiselijk geweld. Recht op leven, Onmenselijke en vernederende behandeling. Positieve plicht tot bieden bescherming. Discriminatie op grond van geslacht. [EVRM art. 2, 3, 14, 41] in: European Human Rights Cases, 10-09-2009, afl. 9, pp. 1014-1034

- Book review: Heli Askola, ‘Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the European Union’, in: Maastricht Journal on Comparative and European Law, 3rd issue, 2008, pp. 363 – 367

- ‘Article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’, advice written and presented on general day of discussion UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, New York, 21 July 2004

- ‘Women’s right to adequate housing’, advice written and presented on general day of discussion UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural, Geneva, 13 May 2002, published as UN doc. E/C.12/2002/4, 4 February 2002