This paper defines a category of ‘emancipation rights', encompassing both women's human rights and children's human rights. The paper argues that some of the emancipatory human rights challenges are the same for women and children: these concern the need to ‘see that category of people...

International human rights law is a complex multilayered reality that can be analysed in terms of legal pluralism. The paper submits that it is highly relevant for scholars of human rights law to study human rights law as an integrated whole: looking amongst others at issues of consistency and...