About
Simone Cusack
The Optional Protocol to CEDAW website is published by Simone Cusack.
Simone works at the Australian Human Rights Commission.* She has published and lectured on a range of human rights issues, including the Optional Protocol, and is co-author (with Professor Rebecca J. Cook) of Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).
Simone holds a B.A./LL.B. (Hons.) from Monash University, Australia and a LL.M. from the University of Toronto, Canada.
*The website does not express the views of the Australian Human Rights Commission and is published in a personal capacity.
Books
Rebecca J. Cook & Simone Cusack, Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) (cloth and paperback) (288 pp.)
Spanish translation: Estereotipos de Género: Perspectivas Legales Transnacionales, traducido por: Andrea Parra, 291 pp (Bogota: Profamilia Colombia, 2011) (291 pp.) Tabla de Contenido
Award: Nominated for American Society of International Law’s “Certificate of Merit for Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship” (2010)
Reports
Simone Cusack, Mechanisms for Advancing Women’s Human Rights: A Guide to Using the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and Other International Complaint Mechanisms (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2011)
Chapters
Simone Cusack, “CEDAW as a Legal Framework for Transnational Discourses on Gender Stereotyping,” in Anne Hellum & Henriette Sinding Aasen, eds., The Added Value of CEDAW: International, Regional and National Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013)
Simone Cusack & Rebecca J. Cook, “Combating Discrimination against Women,” in Catarina Krause & Martin Scheinin, eds., International Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook, 2nd ed. (Turku: Åbo Akademi University, Institute for Human Rights, 2012), 211-242 (32 pp.)
Simone Cusack & Rebecca J. Cook, “Combating Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender,” in Catarina Krause & Martin Scheinin, eds., International Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook (Turku: Åbo Akademi University, Institute for Human Rights, 2009), 205-226 (22 pp.)
Rebecca J. Cook & Simone Cusack, “Women’s Rights,” in Rhona K. M. Smith & Christien van der Anker, eds., Essential Guide to Human Rights (London: Hodder Arnold, 2005), 366-369 (4 pp.)
Articles
Simone Cusack & Alexandra Timmer, “Gender Stereotyping in Rape Cases: The CEDAW Committee’s Decision in Vertido v The Philippines” (2011) 11(2) Human Rights Law Review 329-342 (14 pp.)
Rebecca J. Cook, Simone Cusack & Bernard M. Dickens, “Unethical Female Stereotyping in Reproductive Health“ (2010) 109 International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 255-258 (4 pp.)
Spanish translation: Rebecca J. Cook, Simone Cusack y Bernard M. Dickens, “La Estereotipación Poco Ética de la Mujer en la Salud Reproductiva,” Traducido por Sandra Dughman (revised edition by CIDE Law School). Texto traducido y reproducido con autorización de la Federación Internacional de Ginecología y Obstetricia (FIGO)
Simone Cusack & Rebecca J. Cook, “Stereotyping Women in the Health Sector: Lessons from CEDAW” (2009) 16(1) Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 47-78 (32 pp.)
Simone Cusack, “Discrimination against Women: Eliminating its Compounded and Systemic Forms” (2009) 34(2) Alternative Law Journal 86-91 (6 pp.)
Simone Cusack & Cecilia Riebl, “International Human Rights Law in Australian Courts: A Role for Amici Curiae and Interveners” (2006) 31(3) Alternative Law Journal 122- 126 (5 pp.)
Book Reviews
Simone Cusack, “The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Commentary” (Marsha A. Freeman, Christine Chinkin & Beate Rudolf (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) (2013) 35 Human Rights Quarterly 251
Simone Cusack and Lisa Pusey, “Women’s Human Rights and Culture: From Deadlock to Dialogue” (Rikki Holtmaat & Jonneke Naber, Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010), (2012) 34 Human Rights Quarterly 583-586 (11 pp.)
Simone Cusack and Rebecca J. Cook, “’Honour’: Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence against Women” (Lynn Welchman & Sara Hossain (eds.), London: Zed Books; Melbourne: Spinifex, 2005) (2007) 29(2) Human Rights Quarterly 524-533 (10 pp.)
Unpublished Reports and Papers
Simone Cusack, “Advancing Sexual Health and Human Rights in the Western Pacific,” WHO Working Paper (Geneva: World Health Organization and International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2010)
Do you have information on OP CEDAW that you would like included on the blog?
If you have information on OP CEDAW (e.g., scholarship, communications, requests for inquiry, amicus briefs) that you would like included on the website, please email the relevant material to simone_cusack [AT] yahoo.com
Are you also interested in stereotyping?
If you’re interested in stereotyping, you might also like http://stereotypingandlaw.wordpress.com/.
Last updated: 13 February 2013
