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In this article, I argue that these approaches are largely
ineffective because of this move. Moreover, in spite of
combining with democratic deliberation, in a real-life case,
what ends up being implemented is the kind of protection
that preserves polygyny, which is a form of customary
marriage that maintains the dependency of women. In
practice, then
,
such protection is severely limited. While
not rejecting the major approaches altogether, I attempt a
rescue move by reconsidering what specifically is involved
in the implementations of protections for women in terms
of women’s rights as human rights. I uncover that the
enforcement
component has been overlooked. Furthering
this finding, I draw attention to a different and neglected
strategy for addressing violence against women: the
policing approach. By being closer to the ground, I argue,
this alternative approach can help to achieve what the
major approaches have thus far fallen short. As emergent
from the best legal practices of preemption, deterrence,
and predictive analysis of this phenomenon, I suggest that
this approach has the greatest potential to make a genuine
difference in the prevention of violence against women.
Key Words:
women’s rights as human rights, protection,
deliberation, prevention, police
