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Books on: womens human rights

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Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments - Vol. pt. 1

Book by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva; United Nations, 2002

Subjects:

Human Rights, Treaties--Collections

Collections: Entire Library

...Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva Human Rights A Compilation of International Instruments...xiii it A. THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS ..................................... I B...
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Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality, and Women in the New Millennium

Book by Wendy Chavkin, Ellen Chesler; Rutgers University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Birth Control--Moral And Ethical Aspects, Contraception--Moral And Ethical Aspects, Human Rights, Reproductive Health, Women's Rights

Collections: Entire Library

...3. Reproductive health. 4. Womens rights. 5. Human rights. 1. Chavkin, Wendy...tralia on how to move the womens human rights agenda forward. Many members...determination, the Global Campaign for Womens Human Rights overcame substantial resistance...
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Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives

Book by Rebecca J. Cook; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994

Subjects:

Feminism, Human Rights, Women's Rights, Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc

Collections: Entire Library

...More Effective Enforcement of Womens Human Rights Through the Use of International...Commission of Jurists to Womens Human Rights Mona Rishmawi 340 IV...Application of International Womens Human Rights in the Sudan Asma Mohamed...
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Gender, Planning, and Human Rights

Book by Tovi Fenster; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Economic Development--Social Aspects, Human Rights, Social Planning, Women In Development, Women's Rights, Women--Economic Conditions, Women--Social Conditions

Collections: Entire Library

This collection challenges the traditional treatment of human rights. The book argues that to truly promote the notion of human rights its scope must be widened to include issues of space, gender and power. The contributors use a wealth of international case studies to lay out a new agenda for ...
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This collection challenges the traditional treatment of human rights. The book argues that to truly promote the notion of human rights its scope must be widened to include issues of space, gender and power. The contributors use a wealth of international case studies to lay out a new agenda for successfully integrating human rights issues in planning, development and policy making.
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Debating Human Rights: Critical Essays from the United States and Asia

Book by Peter Van Ness; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Human Rights, Human Rights--Asia, United States--Foreign Relations

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Debating Human Rights brings together a broad range of contributors from Asia and the US to discuss issues that frequently cause division. It covers the main issues in dispute such as the impact of globalization, and Asian values. There are also separate sections on human rights in Greater China ...
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Debating Human Rights brings together a broad range of contributors from Asia and the US to discuss issues that frequently cause division. It covers the main issues in dispute such as the impact of globalization, and Asian values. There are also separate sections on human rights in Greater China, women's rights, and human rights and international relations. Concluding with a a critique of the role of China, Japan and the US in contemporary human rights diplomacy, this book presents a pragmatic approach to reconciling diverse and controversial perspectives.
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Journal Articles on: womens human rights

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The Environment, Population, and Women's Human Rights

Journal article by Reed Boland; Environmental Law, Vol. 27, 1997

Subjects:

Human rights--Analysis, Population policy--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...environment, population, and womens human rights by Reed Boland...human rights, particularly womens human rights since the fertility of women...human rights (particularly womens human rights) that we can make a lasting...
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Lessons about Autonomy and Integration from International Human Rights, Law Journals, and the World of Golf

Journal article by Elizabeth M. Bruch; Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 12, 2003

Subjects:

Discrimination in sports--Laws, regulations and rules, Education Amendments of 1972--20 U.S.C. 1681(a), Feminist jurisprudence--Evaluation, Feminist literature--Evaluation, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Sex discrimination--Laws, regulations and rules, Sports discrimination--Laws, regulations and rules, Women--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...scholars about whether to address womens human rights issues separately from "mainstream...commonalities between the international womens human rights movement and the smaller movements...familiar with the origins of the womens human rights movement, so I will begin there...
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Rape as a Weapon of War: Advancing Human Rights for Women at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Journal article by Sylvanna Falcon; Social Justice, Vol. 28, 2001

Subjects:

Border patrols--Crime, Human rights--Social aspects, Rape--Political aspects, Sex crimes--Political aspects, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...an INS employee to violate womens human rights. The actual number of rapes...demonstrates egregious violations of womens human rights. The human rights literature...Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, womens rights as human rights, and...
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From the Stasi Commission to the European Court of Human Rights: L'affaire Du Foulard and the Challenge of Protecting the Rights of Muslim Girls

Journal article by Nusrat Choudhury; Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 16, 2007

Subjects:

European Convention on Human Rights, Hijab (Custom)--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Muslim women--Laws, regulations and rules, Scarves--Laws, regulations and rules, Secularism--Laws, regulations and rules, Sex discrimination against women--Laws, regulations and rules, United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Women, Muslim--Laws, regulations and rules

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...international human rights regime to promote womens rights to religious...and women, of human rights and fundamental...provision protects womens ability to realize...nor any global human rights instrument has articulated womens equal entitlement...
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Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice

Journal article by Kimberly Hutchings; Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 20, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...human rights agenda, womens human rights. Her account is based...politically in advancing womens interests. This, in...groups operate. If human rights discourse has purchase...of the discourse of womens human rights and the CEDAW project...

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Magazine Articles on: womens human rights

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Women's Rights, Human Rights

Magazine article by Katha Pollitt; The Nation, Vol. 262, May 13, 1996

Subjects:

Human rights--International aspects, Women's rights--International aspects

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Womens Rights, Human Rights. by Katha Pollitt Are womens rights human rights? During the cold war the United States granted political refugee...
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Rights of Older Persons Backed by Economic and Social Council. Acts on Human Rights, Women, Drugs, and Other Social Issues

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 28, September 1991

Subjects:

Children's rights--Political aspects, Drug abuse--Political aspects, Elder law--Political aspects, Human rights--Political aspects, United Nations. Economic and Social Council--Social policy, United Nations--Resolutions, Women's rights--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...an independent expert to examine developments in the human rights situation in Haiti. Protection of children The Special...continue his work. Prominent among Council resolutions on womens issues was one urging strengthened legislation against...
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An Abortion of Human Rights

Magazine article by Kira Cochrane; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 23, 2006

Subjects:

Abortion--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights activists--Demonstrations and protests, Human rights workers--Demonstrations and protests, Women's rights--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

An Abortion of Human Rights. by Kira Cochrane There was a time...concerned about the idea of abortion, but also about womens needs. And it seems to be working. A poll in...jeopardise, in fact, a womans right to be a sentient human being.
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In Fiftieth Anniversary Year, Assembly Reviews Progress on Human Rights Declaration

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 36, Spring 1999

Subjects:

Children's rights--International aspects, Human rights--International aspects, Poverty--Social aspects, Sex differences--Social aspects, United Nations. General Assembly--Social policy, Women's rights--International aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...anniversary year, assembly reviews progress on human rights declaration Human rights questions once again dominated the agenda of...poverty on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and a declaration in support of human rights...
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CIM: Making Women's Rights Human Rights

Magazine article by Linda J. Poole; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 45, March 1993

Subjects:

South America--Social aspects, Women's organizations--History, Women's rights--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

CIM: making womens rights human rights by...in the range of human rights and to recognize...to the National Womens Service (SERNAM...International Womens Rights Action Watch...violation of the human rights of women...

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Newspaper Articles on: womens human rights

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Human Rights Activist Shot, 2 Left-Wing Leaders Abducted

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 14, 2007

Subjects:

Activists, Human rights, Kidnapping, Political activists, Reformers, Social reformers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...rights group leader and the alleged abduction of two other human rights defenders in Iloilo province last Thursday night. The...have been condemned," Clamor said. Meanwhile, Gabriela Womens Partylist Rep. Liza Maza said they are campaigning for...
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U.N. OKs Pared-Down Declaration; U.S. Concerns on Human Rights Panel Ignored

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 14, 2005

Subjects:

Human rights

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...outcome, saying that it fell far short of ideals on human rights, nuclear weapons, womens rights and other issues. Development specialists...recommendation to scrap the heavily politicized 53-member Human Rights Commission and replace it with a smaller and...
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Mideast Summit Plans Include Saudis; White House Downplays Human Rights Issue

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 20, 2007

Subjects:

Human rights, United States. Department of State

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...administration deflected questions about Saudi Arabias human rights record yesterday amid preparations for a peace summit...state for public diplomacy, had a heated exchange on womens rights with female Saudi college students when she first visited...
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Human Rights Group Fights for Women's Social, Political, Legal, Economic Needs

Newspaper article by Fauzia Ahmed; The Washington Times, July 8, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Human rights group fights for womens social, political, legal, economic needs by Fauzia...Answer: In the women sector of HRCP, it is committed to womens rights being human rights; all endeavors are directed toward that. We at the...
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U.S. Sees Human Rights Eroding in China

Newspaper article by Tom Carter; The Washington Times, February 27, 1999

Subjects:

China

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...extrajudicial killings and tortured, abused and raped citizens. Afghanistan - Perhaps the most severe abuse of womens human rights in the world, as well as abuse of those accused of violating strict Islamic law occur. Israel - Security forces...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: womens human rights

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...leading part in womens organizations and...working for the civil rights of minorities, and...the Commission on Human Rights, a subsidiary...Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). In the 1950s...Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2001...
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National Parks and Monuments

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and early leader in the womens movement. Manzanar...and grave of the civil-rights leader. Martin Van...William Howard Taft . Womens Rights HP W N.Y. 1980 6...Chapel, site of first womens rights convention (1848), and...
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Wig

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the reign of Charles II of England. As human hair was both difficult to obtain and...men lost favor, the wig became a part of womens fashions. Today the use of the wig is...Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Undset, Sigrid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...realistic works in which she described womens struggles for selfhood in a male-dominated...historical novels dealing with universal human problems. Kristin Lavransdatter (3 vol...Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Marriage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...commonly found where the value of womens labor is high and may be practiced...In recent years many gay-rights groups have sought official...Westermark, The History of Human Marriage (3 vol., 5th ed...Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

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