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Are Women's Rights Human Rights?

The rights of women as a distinctive form of right have recently gained momentum albeit with controversy. The fundamental issue here lays in the understanding that human rights are supposed to be universal; and an accommodative move to afford special privilege for women merely based on their sex is obnoxious. Proponents for special form of women rights prefer to use the term gender than sex to back the position 'it's not discriminatory’. The simple logic but fundamental in serving as a hypothesis for this short article is that: If women are human, then their rights should be universal and if they demand special rights then those rights are not human rights. The consequence is then far reaching as many international human rights instruments deals with human right per se.

Women's Rights are Human Rights: A concept in the making

This article traces the development of the Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights from its origins in the global feminist movement of the 1980's through the historic Vienna (1993) and Beijing (1995) UN World Conferences. It analyzes the achievements of this movement and the challenges and backlash faced since the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Conference in 2015. (published in the collection, "Women and Girls Rising" edited by Ellen Chesler and Terry McGovern, Routledge, London and New York, 2016)

Womens Rights and Law Gender equality

This chapter includes introductory information regarding the human rights on gender equality and more specifically the women's rights, while referring to the UN Conventions, the European Union law and the gender-based asylum law.