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Human rights of women: national and international perspectives

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International human rights law is facing the challenge of being relevant and credible in improving the circumstances in which the vast majority of the world’s women live their lives. The blight of many women’s lives exposes the shortcomings that have beset international law, both in its origins and in its more modern developments. Classical international law, like the law of nature and nations, paid no attention to women as such; both nature and nations have been understood through the characteristics of men and through the motivations and strategies of men who led the affairs of nations. The twentieth-century development in. International human rights law has not yet been applied effectively to redress the disadvantages and injustices experienced by women by reason only of their being women. In this sense, respect for human rights fails to be “universal.” The reasons for this general failure to enforce women’s human rights are complex and vary from country to country. They include lack of understanding of the systemic nature of the subordination of women, failure to recognize the need to characterize the subordination of women as a human rights violation, and lack of state practice to condemn discrimination against women

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KP 1.00007	KP 1 COO h	My Library	Available
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KP 1 COO h

Publisher

Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania., 1994

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xiv, 634 hal ; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

812215389

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KP 1

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Hak asasi manusia
Hak Perempuan
Perempuan dan hukum

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