Poverty and Human Rights of Women

Contents Editorial notes. 1. The United Nations and women's rights an overview of the issues and achievements/Yeshi Choedon. 2. Dowry an obstacle to women empowerment/Anjali Mehra and Rama Bhardwaj. 3. Poverty alleviation and women empowerment synergistic endeavours of microfinance in North Bengal/Samirendra Natha Dhar. 4. Human resources development for women and quality of work life/R. Meenakshi. 5. Human rights of women/S.N. Yogish. 6. Poverty among women in India/Achala Srivastava. 7. Women and poverty multipronged human rights violation in India/P. Pushpa. 8. Poverty and women's rights violation with special references to Tamilnadu/J. Cyril Kanmony. 9. The stone crushing women of Balasan River bed an appeal from Humanitarian perspective/Samar Kumar Biswas and Somenath Bhattacharjee. 10. Women's rights some issues/B. Sankaran and Prema Sankaran. 11. Poverty and girl child labour a study in Brick Kilns/Siddhartha Sarkar. 12. Women poverty and environment/B.N. Neelima and M.V. Ramanamma. 13. The impact of poverty on violation of women human rights/S. Sri Krishna and S. Anil Kumar. Human rights are those rights which every individual in any society requires as a consequence of being human. The concept has become popular especially since the second world war although its existence can be traced back in ancient Greek and Roman thoughts. This concept has in fact replaced the term natural rights. The millennium development goals human development and human rights together share a common motivation that includes freedom equality solidarity tolerance respect for nature and shared responsibility. Achieving these goals will enlarge human rights. Each goal is connected to economic social and cultural rights counted in the Universal declaration of Human Rights (1948) and many other human rights instruments. Historically human rights have been classified in terms of three generations viz (i) civil and political rights (ii) economic social and cultural rights and (iii) solidarity rights. With the shifting of the focus of global political disputes from the rich and advanced industrialized nations to the poor less developed and developing countries questions regarding the relationship between poverty and oppression arise more frequently that require monitoring human rights for safeguarding the interests of disadvanced sections of the society including women. 212 pp. …