Aspects of UN Activities on the International Protection of Women's Rights (original) (raw)

Guarantees of Women's Human Rights in the International Arena

Journal of Exploratory Studies in Law and Management, 2017

A review of the International Bill of Human Rights suggests that a history of the development of international instruments for the protection of Women's Rights was developed and approved not dating back more than a century and in all these human rights documents, whether public or private documents, women's political rights are considered and supported. The United Nations support of women's human rights began from the Human Rights Charter. Under Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations, the United Nations goals are: "increasing international cooperation in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for everybody without discrimination on grounds of race, sex, language or religion". The present study seeks the guarantees of women's human rights in the international arena due to the importance of the guarantee in restoration of the rights of individuals and societies.

“Gender” in International Human Rights Law: Theory and Practice

Moscow Journal of International Law

INTRODUCTION. The institute for the protection of women both at international and national levels taking into account the ongoing discussions on the term “gender” is considered in the article. The authors examine the distinction between concepts “sex”, “gender” and “gender identity”, enshrined in international legal acts and documents, the States’ positions and approaches to their use, including on the example of the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention.MATERIALS AND METHODS. During the research the authors used different international legal documents, including international treaties, recommendations of the United Nations treaty bodies, reports of the special rapporteurs and international experts, outcome documents of international conferences, as well as doctrinal sources and national legislation of foreign countries. The study was carried out based on gen...

Human Rights Are Women’s Right: Challenging the Inequality Against Women

2020

Gender issues and its perception of deprivation of certain rights on women have been a concern over the decade in scholarship. Gender roles as handed down from generations are not without inequality that exists between the masculine and the feminine genders. This has orchestrated the viewing of women as second class citizens that have little or no right in the society. This view is not particularized to any locale, but is seen as a general phenomenon which has called for the attention of the world in its amelioration. In view of this fact, the United Nation is the predominant voice that has documents on the right of women in the world and tends to correct some inequalities that are predominant in our cultures today. This work will adopt a phenomenological approach in its study and theoretically framed with Conflict theory. This is because the society is a struggle for dominance among social groups (Men and Women) that compete for scarce resources and the subsequent UN’s struggle to ...