Author | : J. S. Peters |
File Size | : 54,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 11 May 2018 |
ISBN | : 9781317325482 |
Pages | : 383 pages |
Women s Rights Human Rights by J. S. Peters Book PDF Summary
This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.