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ADDRESSING THE SEX/GENDER DIFFERENCE: AN INCLUSIVE APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS

Zbornik Pravnog Fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, 2010
Women’s experiences of human rights abuse have long been marginalised in international human rights law. The main human rights concepts such as personhood, equality and freedom have been defined on the basis of the experiences of men.
Ivana Radačić
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Revising cultural relativism in the context of contemporary anti-gender movements

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
The relationship between universality and cultural relativism has been tense throughout the development of the international human rights regime. Covenants and declarations concerning women’s rights have sparked particular controversy as countries have ...
Helen L. Murphey
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Women’s rights in Islamic Shari’a : between interpretation, culture and politics

, 2014
This article analyses existing biases – whether due to misinterpretation, culture or politics – in the application of women’s rights under Islamic Shari’a law.
MANSOUR, Dina
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Women’s Rights as Human Rights and Cultural Imperialism [PDF]

, 2019
The Women’s Rights as Human Rights movement is a particularly noteworthy poster child of the influential international human rights system. It is predicated on the liberal individualist conception of human rights and gender equality.
Herr, Ranjoo S.
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Saving Muslim women in the era of Axis of Evil? : pious women’s movement advocates in Iran, 2001-2010

, 2015
This thesis aims to investigate US foreign policies in the post-9/11 world, focusing on the ways in which they affected the Iranian women’s movement after Iran was included in the Axis of Evil in January 2002.
Raunio, Paola Maria
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Measuring Complexity and Change in Human Rights [PDF]

, 2009
Empirical research in human rights has made enormous strides over the last three decades not only in the breadth and depth of human rights that are examined but also in the sophistication and array of the methods used in these studies.
Carvalho, Edzia; id_orcid, Landman, Todd
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Feminist Practices and Experiential Pedagogies: Student Learning at the Commission on the Status of Women

Clinical Sociology Review
This article describes an undergraduate experiential learning course based at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The course introduces students to the evolution of global women’s rights movements and gender equality efforts at the United ...
Emily Bent
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The evolution of women’s rights. A historical and geographical excursus

reservedQuesta tesi esplora l'evoluzione dei diritti delle donne attraverso un obiettivo geografico, esaminando lo sviluppo e la trasformazione del diritto delle donne e lo status sociale in diverse regioni del mondo.
GRUOSSO, DONATELLA
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PROTECTING WOMEN’S RIGHTS? PROSPECTS UNDER THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY ON INDIA 2005-2017

, 2018
The establishment of the United Nations Treaty System was the fundamental step for the protection and enforcement of women’s rights. The system is designed to monitor the human rights standards in countries that have ratified the treaties, called state ...
Deepali
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The G20 and gender equality: how the G20 can advance women's rights in employment, social protection and fiscal policies [PDF]

, 2014
Women can expect to wait another 75 years before they receive the same amount of pay as their male counterparts, according to this report. Summary In its ‘World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development’, the World Bank asserted that ...

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