Constructing Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally L. Kitch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Urban Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Basic Definition ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
International Understanding ◽  
Social Stratum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter provides a detailed look at women's rights in Afghanistan. The basic definition of women's rights has varied in Afghanistan according to region, social stratum, time, and educational levels, and it has rarely if ever been consistent across the country at any given moment. In the past few decades at least, many educated urban women (and some men) have understood the concept of women's rights according to two major referents. One is Islam, represented by the Holy Qur'an and hadith, understood and interpreted by educated people like Marzia and Jamila. The second referent for this group is the international understanding of human rights and the rights to which all the world's women are presumably entitled.

An investigation into social studies curriculum and course books in the context of women's and children's rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Erol ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Social

Human rights are necessary and compulsory for all people irrespective of language, religion, race, gender or sect. Learning about these rights begins within family and continues in school formally. Human rights education is necessary for values of human rights to pass from theory to practice. The rights given to people or groups with certain characteristics only in the past are today offered on the basis of equality and freedom in the contemporary society. Among those groups, children and women who obtained their rights later than others are of sensitive importance. This study investigated the extent to which children’s and women’s rights are included in the social sciences curriculum and social sciences course books. Among qualitative research methods, the document analysis was used in the study. The results of study showed that children's and women's rights are not included in social sciences course and curriculum at a desired level, the values that can be associated with human rights are included, yet these values are not distributed in a balanced way across grades. Learning outcomes regarding human rights in the curriculum of social sciences can be increased. The contents about children's and women's rights can be increased. Also, the current and controversial topics regarding children's and women's rights can be added in the course books.

DIALECTS OF WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITRY OF THEARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2005

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Abu-Lughod
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Universal Human Rights

The ethical and political dilemmas posed by the construction and international circulation of discourses on women's rights in the Middle East are formidable. The plight of “Muslim women” has long occupied a special place in the Western political imagination, whether in colonial officials' dedication to saving them from barbaric practices or development projects devoted to empowering them. In the past fifteen years or so, through a series of international conferences and the efforts of feminist activists, women's rights have come to be framed successfully as universal human rights. Building on the U.N. conferences on women that started in 1975 and led to other initiatives, the appropriate arena of women's rights work has been redefined from the national to the international.

International Obstacles to Russian Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-174
Author(s):  
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom ◽  
Valerie Sperling ◽  
Melike Sayoglu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Case Record ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Court ◽  
Very High

Chapter 5 takes up the international obstacles to successful gender discrimination claims at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), both across the Council of Europe, and from Russia specifically. The reluctance of the Court until recently to find violations of Article 14 alongside violations of other articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the limited set of circumstances in which discrimination falls under the Convention’s jurisdiction, and the very high bar of evidence required to prove discrimination, all play a large part in explaining the Court’s miniscule case record on gender discrimination. Yet we also document how the Court has become more open in the past several years to finding sex-based discrimination violations, in part due to the diffusion of successful logics of argument among women’s rights lawyers, as well as the emergence of standards in other international women’s rights conventions that the ECtHR has begun to acknowledge, such as the Convention on Eliminating All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The chapter discusses a variety of landmark cases at the ECtHR in this area, such as Opuz v. Turkey and Konstantin Markin v. Russia.

Feminismo americano

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Marino
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Global Feminism ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Second World

The prologue introduces the reader to Pan-American feminism: a movement that promoted women’s rights throughout the Americas over the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that inter-American feminism was at the vanguard of global feminism and international human rights. One of the movement’s signal contributions was its promotion of women’s rights treaties at Pan American and League of Nations conferences. The movement was also defined by its increasingly expansive definition of feminismo americano pioneered by Spanish-speaking Latin American activists, that included women’s political, civil, social, and economic rights; anti-imperialism; anti-fascism; and anti-racism. The movement culminated after the Second World War when, at the 1945 founding of the United Nations, a group of inter-American feminists pushed women’s rights and human rights into the UN Charter. The prologue introduces the six feminists at the heart of this activism: Paulina Luisi (Uruguay), Bertha Lutz (Brazil), Clara Gonzoz (Panama), Ofelia Dom쭧uez Navarro (Cuba), Doris Stevens (the United States), and Marta Vergara (Chile). Their friendships and their conflicts, over language, race, class, nation, empire, and different understandings of “women’s rights” and feminist strategy, were critical to the movement’s dynamics and its greatest accomplishments.

scholarly journals IN SEARCH OF CONSTITUTIONALITY: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INDONESIA’S ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY LAW

Yuridika ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
The Government ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Being Religious

In 2008 vehement debates about the freedom of expression divided Indonesia, after the government resubmitted a bill for Anti-Pornography to Parliament. The various sides employed all kinds of arguments and perspectives, the main ones being religious versus human rights and pluralism. The main problem of the new law is its vague and very broad definition of pornography, which could threaten women’s rights, cultural expression and press freedom. In the context of democratization in Indonesia post Soeharto, freedom of expression has been progressively promoted, particularly by the adoption of a Constitutional guarantee for freedom of expression. Nevertheless, the constitutionality of freedom of expression still needs to be comprehensively re-explored in order to advance human rights and democracy development.Key words: Anti-Pornography, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

Human rights and women's rights

Midwifery ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights

Hina Jilani on her Satyagraha for Women’s Rights in Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-253
Author(s):  
Juanita Kakoty
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Rights Consciousness

This piece is based on a conversation the author had with lawyer and human rights activist from Pakistan, Hina Jilani, in May 2016. It captures Jilani’s account of the ‘Satyagraha’ she has waged in her lifetime for the rights of women in her country; and as she narrates her story, she interweaves it with the ‘Satyagraha’ that shaped the women’s movement in Pakistan. One can read here about Jilani’s struggle for truth, for a human rights consciousness in a political climate of military regime; and how she challenged courts in the country to step outside the realm of conventional law and extend justice to women and girls. And in the process, learn that her struggle for truth has been intertwined with that of the women’s movement in the country.

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