Women's Human Rights

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.

Reilly, Niamh

Foreign & International Law

Polity

This book explores the emergence of transnational, Un-oriented, feminist advocacy for women's human rights, especially over the past three decades. It also traces the evolution of the women's human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This section covers a whole range of human rights issues, including violence against women, trafficking and female genital mutilation. You will find several excellent new titles that show how activists are working to end gender-specific violence, including Breaking the Earthenware Jar, which offers lessons from South Asia, and With an End in Sight, which describes a number of successful initiatives from around the world. Our best-selling Rights of Women is also featured here. Titles on armed conflict and the peace process can be found in a separate sectionA comprehensive history and analysis of women's organizing around the UN World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, 1993), this book presents especially detailed insights into the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Rights. Includes sections of the Vienna Declaration pertaining to women; a list of UN Human Rights divisions; and a reading/contact list.

Demanding Accountability : The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights

Bunch, Charlotte

Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's

United Nations World Conference on Human

Women's Studies

United Nations Development

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