Women’s Human Rights and the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights

1994 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna J. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
World Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Standards ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Gender Specific

The June 1993 World Conference on Human Rights witnessed the extraordinary success of efforts by women’s rights activists worldwide to end the historic disregard of human rights violations against women. Indeed, women’s human rights was perhaps the only area in which the World Conference can be said to have met the challenge of defining a forward-looking agenda twenty-five years after the last world conference on human rights. The conference significantly expanded the international human rights agenda to include gender-specific violations. The final conference document, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, identifies particular examples of gender-specific abuses as human rights violations and calls for integration of women’s human rights throughout United Nations activities. Most strikingly, the conference crystallized a political consensus that various forms of violence against women should be examined within the context of human rights standards and in conjunction with gender discrimination. This Note reviews the treatment of women’s human rights in the Declaration and Programme of Action and related developments in the preparatory process for the World Conference.

Women's human rights violations: Cameroonian students' perceptions

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Kassea ◽  
Inari Sakki ◽  
Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Women's Human Rights

scholarly journals ASEAN’s Problematic Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: The New Media’s Role in Enhancing the Protection of Human Rights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Ramcharan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
World Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Standards

Citizens of ASEAN states appear to be increasingly involved, through Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), in pushing for greater openness and accountability of their political leaders and public institutions. In particular, ICTs afford citizens of ASEAN States and like-minded counterparts around the world in the human rights community to push for greater accountability of ASEAN’s human rights institutions. With the adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007, ASEAN states embarked on a process of crafting a regional ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), eighteen years after the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria. While the World Conference had reaffirmed the universality of human rights, ASEAN states have moved grudgingly and gradually, egged on by greater global concern for human rights and by the pressures of globalization, towards the protection of human rights. The Terms of Reference (TORs) of the AICHR, adopted in July 2009 and favouring promotion rather than protection of human rights did not provide for an institutionalised role for the media. Subsequent drafting by AICHR of a proposed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) has excluded mainstream news media and civil society organizations (CSOs) from the process. In the absence of reporting and substantive reporting by most mainstream media in the region civil society, most importantly the new ICT based media, has played a vital role in seeking to advance the protection of human rights. This includes scrutiny of the specific rights that will be included in the forthcoming AHRD to ensure that international human rights standards are upheld and that ASEAN states honour their existing commitments under international instruments. The new media-environment provides a platform for a multitude of actors to disseminate human rights related information, to document human rights abuses and thereby enhance the protection of human rights in the region.  

scholarly journals Violence on Women and Children: Background, Effects, and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Aulia Vaya Rahmatika
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Legal Enforcement ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Conduct

Violence is any criminal conduct that may harm the victim. The violence occurred on a number of factors, including the factors economic, cultural, social, and legal. Today, violence is an awful lot going on in the community. See the rampant violence lately are influenced by the large number of people experiencing prolonged crisis due to oppression. The action also triggered by weak social control that is not followed by legal enforcement measures. There is also the violence done to women and children. Violence against women as a global problem, already fretting over every country in the world, not just the countries that are developing but also including developed countries which are said to be greatly appreciate and care about the human rights as United States of America. Indonesia as a country that is growing, it bore the title bad in the problem of human rights violations. Human rights violations are one of which violations of women's human rights. The women's human rights violations can be classed as acts of violence against women. Violence against women may occur anywhere (in a public place, in the workplace, the surroundings of family (household) and others. Can be done by anyone (parents, brothers or women and others and can occur at any time (day and night). In addition, the violence that occurs in children also resulted in mental decline. Children will feel depressed and prolonged trauma. It is certainly harmful for the child's mental and psychic condition. Violence in children usually occurs because a child who is misbehaving and not according towards parents so often parents furious and do acts of violence. This I will discuss to uncover cases of violence on women and children.

scholarly journals Women's Human Rights are Universal!

1970 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Randa Abul-Husn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Women's Human Rights

Fortunately, women's human rights have become an intrinsic item on world agendas, whatever and whoever the declared International Year may promote. United Nations committees, concerned institutions and feminist groups all over the world highlight women's human rights in the family and warrant for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.

scholarly journals Culture and the Human Rights of Women in Africa: Between Light and Shadow

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
African Women ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Migrant Status ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
Light And Shadow ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractDespite the ratification by African states of several human rights instruments protecting the human rights of women in Africa, and the solemn commitment of the African states to eliminate all forms of discrimination and harmful practices against women, women in Africa still continue to experience human rights violations. Most African women are denied the equal enjoyment of their human rights, in particular by virtue of the lesser status ascribed to them by tradition and custom, or as a result of overt or covert discrimination. Many women in Africa experience distinct forms of discrimination due to the intersection of sex with such factors as race, language, religion, political and other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other factors, such as age, disability, marital, refugee or migrant status, resulting in compounded disadvantage. Therefore, much remains to be done to realize the human rights of women in Africa. This article examines the relationship between culture and women's human rights, and makes some recommendations for the effective realization of these rights.

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