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  • Home
    • The story of WLD
    • About Women, Law and Development
    • About the Website
    • About the Author
  • Beginnings
    • First Initiatives
    • Central America Legal Services
    • Nairobi Forum
  • Organizing
    • Early regional linkages
    • Asia
    • Latin America
    • Africa
    • Interregional connections
    • WLD International
  • Research
    • Clarifying issues and strategies
    • Participatory Research Project
      • Intro Freedom from V
      • Intro Legal Literacy
    • Step by Step
      • Step by Step Acknowledgements
  • Advocacy
    • Agenda setting with NGOs and UN bodies
    • Claiming Our Place
    • Support of the Special Rapporteur
    • Basic Needs Basic Rights
  • Capacity Building
    • Capacity Building
    • Human Rights Training
      • Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union
      • Nigeria Human Rights Training
    • International Advocates Course
    • Russian Lawyers
  • Publications
  • Chronology
  • Reflections
  • Network Links
  • Website Map
© Margaret Schuler
WLD HISTORY

From Basic Needs to Basic Rights: 
​
Women's Claim to Human Rights

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​Margaret Schuler (editor)

Women, Law and Development International, 1995
Washington D.C.

ISBN-10: 1890832057
ISBN-13: 978-1890832056
597 pages
Library of Congress Catalog Number:
95-79859



From Basic Needs to Basic Rights is about the struggle for "engendering human rights" that is, pushing the boundaries of the human rights discourse to cover all threats to women's humanity and creating an effective and responsive system for enforcing women's human rights. The collection of essays and case studies offered here represents a cross-section of the thinking and activism of the global women's human rights movement. 
In the face of women's experiences across the globe, respect for the principles of indivisibility and universality of human rights requires us to take a more comprehensive and integrated approach. It is time to articulate a new vision that bridges the gap between basic needs and basic rights and offers a new paradigm to explore the full range of contemporary challenges to women's advancement.
From Basic Needs to Basic Rights contributes to bridging this gap. It explores themes vital to the work of the women's movement including: gender and hierarchy in human rights; making social and economic rights effective for women; religious, cultural and ethnic identity and challenges to the exercise of women's human rights; conceptualizing and defending women's sexual and reproductive rights; and exploring the strategic dimensions of women's organizing and articulation as a movement.


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Basic Needs  Basic Rights
Women, Law & Development 
Its history and contributions to the global women's rights movement. 
by Margaret Schuler 

Women, Law and Development

In these pages, Margaret Schuler, the initiator and director of WLD for many years, shares the story of its development and the contributions it has made to the international movement.