This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.
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Peters and Wolper have assembled authors who report on their direct experiences with the effects of cultural, social, and economic practices on women. The descriptions in many of these brief reports are honed by keen feminist analysis, giving the reader the essential evidence to build the case for women's rights as poart of the world's human rights agenda.
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Although women have been fighting for rights for centuries, the struggle for women's human rights is a recent campaign of the international women's movement. Women's Rights, Human Rights offers abundant information and significant analysis to our understanding of this complex and dynamic struggle for women's human rights.
–Joanna Kerr, The North South Institute
–Women & Politics
Although women have been fighting for rights for centuries, the struggle for women's human rights is a recent campaign of the international women's movement. Women's Rights, Human Rights offers abundant information and significant analysis to our understanding of this complex and dynamic struggle for women's human rights.
–Joanna Kerr, The North South Institute
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given further effect, genocidal rape, corrective language, persecution claims, traditional practices affecting, cattle ownership, human rights bodies, international human rights law, human rights agenda, displaced women, refugee women, draft power, reproductive tract infections Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, New York, United States, Women's Convention, Third World, World Conference, Universal Declaration, General Assembly, Amnesty International, International Covenant, Middle Eastern, South Africa, Margaret Schuler, Aye Aye, World Health Organization, Compilation of International Instruments, European Convention, Special Rapporteur, Sri Lanka, African Charter, American Convention, Latin America, Population Council, Vienna Declaration, Central America New!
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- Empowerment and the Law: Strategies of Third World Women by Margaret Schuler on 4 pages
- Report on Torture by Amnesty International on page 211, page 212, and page 213
- Women and Human Rights (Women and World Development) by Katarina Tomasevski on page 34, page 144, and page 147
- Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa by Rhoda E. Howard on page 175, page 312, and Back Matter
- Women in Muslim Family Law (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by John L. Esposito on page 145, page 147, and page 148
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- At the Heart of Freedom by Drucill Cornell on 5 pages
- Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Scott M Lash on 4 pages
- Negotiating Culture and Human Rights by Lynda S. Bell on 4 pages
- Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements by Temma Kaplan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sex and Social Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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