Protection Against Violence: The Challenges of Incorporating Human Rights’ Standards to Procedural Law

In the past three decades, violence against women has received considerable attention in human rights law. While traditionally a matter for national law, today several human rights instruments place obligations on state parties to protect victims from gender-based violence, for instance, via judicial protection orders. National procedural law doctrines, however, have not been particularly adaptive to these demands. In this article we discuss the structures, principles, and mechanisms of procedural law in relation to the demands from human rights law.