Women and Rights
This book explores issues of women's rights including: the legal background and history of human rights legislation; the special human-rights problems of women in situations of conflict or as refugees; violence against women as a human rights violation; the rights of disabled women and the importance of providing information and training to enable women to claim their rights. Contributors include Rebecca J Cook, Alda Facio, Chakola Beyani and Lina Abu Habib.
Published: 1995
Pages: 72
eBook: 9780855988746
Paperback: 9780855983178
| 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. |
Caroline Sweetman
Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender & Development and works for Oxfam GB.
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