HUMAN RIGHTS DEPEND ON IMPLEMENTATION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS.(Brief Article)

From: WIN News | Date: January 1, 1999 | Copyright information

FROM GLOBAL CENTER NEWS', CENTER FOR WOMEN'S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 160 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555

"The UN World Conferences of the 1990's advanced global understanding that women's rights are human rights and indeed that the achievement of women's rights depends on seeing them as fundamental questions of human rights. Throughout the world, women worked hard to make the programs from these events - especially the Beijing Platform for Action - a proactive and specific statement of what is needed to address human rights ...

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