Women and rights
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Women and rights
(Oxfam focus on gender)
Oxfam GB, 1998
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First published in 1995 by Oxfam UK and Ireland. Reprinted by Oxfam GB in 1998.
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The "Focus on Gender" series makes available in book form the contents of the Oxfam journal "Gender and Development". Highlighting practice as well as theory, the thematic series makes the resource available to students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in particular topics. "Women's rights are human rights" was one of the messages to come out of the UN Human Rights Conference in Vienna in 1993. This work explores the issue of women's rights in a variety of different contexts. Focusing on women's rights involves the recognition that, throughout the world, legal systems aiming to guarantee rights have their roots in cultures which discriminate against women. Development and human rights are closely linked, and the empowerment of women to claim their full rights will enable them to take full advantage of development processes.
Table of Contents
- Editorial
- Caroline Sweetman
- Enforcing women's rights through law
- Rebecca J. Cook
- From basic needs to basic rights
- Alda Facio
- Violence against Women - the international legal response
- Christine Chinkin
- The needs of refugee women - a human rights perspective
- Chaloka Beyani
- Human rights for women - battles of culture and power
- Karin Poulsen
- Women's legal knowledge - a case study of Mexican urban dwellers
- Luisa Maria Rivera Izabal
- Rivera Izabal "Women and disability don't mix" - double discrimination and disabled women's rights
- Lina Abu Habib
- A right to live - girl workers in the Bangladeshi garment industry
- Gawher Nayeem Wahra and Ferdausur Rahman
- Resources: Book review: Human Rights of Women: national and international perspectives (ed. Rebecca Cook)
- Further reading
- Audio-visual material
- Organisations working on rights.
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