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Women's Rights, Human Rights - Softcover

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9780415909952: Women's Rights, Human Rights

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

J. S. Peters, Andrea Wolper

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Women's Right, Human Rights promises to be the most important book available on the subject of women's human rights worldwide. It includes contributions by activists, journalist, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries.

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