The protection of the rights of women living in rural areas by the European Court of Human Rights through CEDAW guidelines

Abstract

This paper examines the possibility that the particular situation of women in rural areas could be recognized in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights as a type of specific discrimination. Although the Court has not made any express pronouncements on this subject, the paper reviews its previous doctrine on gender equality and rurality. But the analysis of greatest interest is the one that focuses on the doctrine of openness to the positions of other human rights instruments. From this, it would be possible the effectiveness by this way of the guidelines that CEDAW has been carrying out in various instruments in relation to women living in rural areas.