A Guide to Litigating Identity Systems contributions.”329 It is undoubtedly a single strand of the rope, but nevertheless strengthens the entire rope.330 80. From the perspective of civil society organisations, international human rights norms and standards can create stronger protection for existing domestic rights and also influence the “development of transformative national-level jurisprudence and law and policy reform.”331 Beyond the legal, introducing the ideas of international human rights law also has an educational effect on society by being a process through which the construction of ideas, identities, and interests of social actors is recast into a more “rights-aligned perspective” – a step forward in the protection of human rights.332 329. Douglass Cassel, “Does international human rights law make a difference?,” Chicago Journal of International Law 2 (2001): 121. 330 Cassel, “International human rights law,” 121. 331 See Johanna B. Fine, Katherine Mayall, and Lilian Sepúlveda, “The role of international human rights norms in the liberalization of abortion laws globally,” Health and Human Rights Journal, (2 June 2017), https://www.hhrjournal.org/2017/06/the-role-of-international-human-rights-norms-in-the-liberalization-ofabortion-laws-globally/ (last visited 20 November 2019). 332 Janet E. Lord and Michael Ashley Stein, The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, (Faculty Publications, 2008), 665. 78