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Women,Gender,and Human Rights: A Global Perspective/

The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rightsexpresses the credo that all human beings are created free andequal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare womensrights to be human rights and bring gender issues into the globalarena for the first time. "Women, Gender, an...

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Main Author: Agosin,Marjorie.ed
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Jaipur: Rawat, 2003.
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500 |a Marjorie Agos?n is an award-winning poet and recipient of theUnited Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights (1999) and theGabriella Mistral Medal of Honor (2000). She is Professor ofSpanish at Wellesley College. Among her most recent books are "AMap of Hope: Womens Writing on Human Rights" and The "Alphabet inMy Hands, " both published by Rutgers University Press. 
520 |a The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rightsexpresses the credo that all human beings are created free andequal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare womensrights to be human rights and bring gender issues into the globalarena for the first time. "Women, Gender, and Human Rights" is thefirst collection of essays encompassing a wide range of womensissues, including political and domestic violence, education,literacy, and reproductive rights. Most of the essays were writtenexpressly for this volume by internationally known experts in thefields of government, bioethics, medicine, public affairs,literature, history, anthropology, law, and psychology.  
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