Review: Women's Human Rights

This publication presents the proceedings of the Working Conference on Women's Rights as Human Rights (Dublin, March 1997) convened by the ICCL Women's Committee. The event brought together more than 400 diverse women from all over Ireland to focus on human rights as a framework to advance women's rights internationally but especially here in Ireland.

This article traces the development of the Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights from its origins in the global feminist movement of the 1980's through the historic Vienna (1993) and Beijing (1995) UN World Conferences. It analyzes the achievements of this movement and the challenges and backlash faced since the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Conference in 2015. (published in the collection, "Women and Girls Rising" edited by Ellen Chesler and Terry McGovern, Routledge, London and New York, 2016)

Alberta law review, 1996

Rebecca Cook's recent contribution to the legal literature on women's human rights, Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives' is an American book that will likely find its best audience in Canada. One of eight volumes in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, the book emerged out of a 1992 conference on international women's rights held in Toronto. Cook herself is a professor at the University of Toronto's law faculty. Her reputation for extensive contacts and networking in the legal communities of feminist thought and international human rights law is evidenced throughout this multicultural blend. It is a blend that is particularly relevant to the Canadian human rights experience, with twenty-three contributors from Africa, South America and South East Asia, the U.S., Britain and Australia, as well as Canada Human Rights of Women offers critical analyses of law's role in redressing the social and legal inequities and inequalities that women face in virtually every human society. It also provides a welcome respite from the "backlash books" that litter the late eighties and early nineties. Indeed, for many who have read Camille Paglia's polemic, Sexual Personae,2 it has become difficult to read any book about the role of women in society without remembering the answer to a powerful question Paglia puts to the reader: who built human society? The answer, according to Paglia, is men. From the great buildings and bridges to the laws of physics and the definitive contributions in science, art, literature and music, the memorable moments of human history owe their existence, almost without exception, to men.

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Women's Human Rights

International Human Rights of Women, 2019

“Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights,” by Charlotte Bunch (published in Human Rights Quarterly in 1990), is considered a classic text in the field of women’s human rights. In it, Bunch set out her arguments about the importance of connecting women’s rights to human rights in theory and practice and what prevented recognition of women’s rights as human rights. This chapter revisits Bunch’s 1990 article to explore continuity and change in how gender and women’s human rights are viewed 25 years after the UN World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna 1993) declared that “the human rights of women … are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights’. The chapter is organized around the responses given by Bunch to a series of questions about the continued relevance of the ideas developed in ‘Women’s Rights as Human Rights” regarding, for example, the current status of human rights as a global ethical and political vision compared to 1990; the nature of the excuses given for inaction on the human rights of women, then and now; and the extent to which the international human rights community has fulfilled its promise in 1993 to prioritize the human rights of women, especially by addressing gender-based violence.

Politics & Gender, 2006

This paper argues the latest needs articulating females women's rights as human rights is usually effective just by simply misrecognition with the geopolitical circumstance of human rights internationalism plus the nationalisms that are permanent because of it. Disagreeing it is just about the level of universalized buildings of 'women' to be a group plus the generalized invocations of oppression by simply 'global feminism's' 'American' professionals which this kind of discourses of rights become to be effective, this specific document argues which plan along with steps call for handling localised along with transnational specificities which developed gendered inequalities.

Springer eBooks, 2019