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