Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights

Bunch, Charlotte

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“…called "Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-vision of Human Rights" (Bunch, 1990). Certainly earlier work, in academic writing, NGO reports, and institutional statements, focused attention on discrimination toward women or human rights violations toward women, such as rape or sexual exploitation, but in the mid-1980s and early 1990s there was a more profound turn to linking women's rights and human rights.…”

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“…The coalition saw that "human rights are not reducible to a question of legal and due process" (Bunch, 1990, p. 496). Bunch (1990) argues that while the previous three approaches may be conceived from a feminist perspective:…”

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“…According to Bunch (1990), "this approach relates women's rights and human rights, looking first at the violations of women's lives and then asking how the human rights concept can change to be more responsive to women". Here is where grassroots discussions are extremely important in beginning to redefine traditional human rights frames.…”

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“Gay Rights are Human Rights”: the Framing of New Interpretations of International Human Rights Norms

Holzhacker¹

2014

The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights

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Abstract"Gay Rights are Human Rights" may have begun as a slogan chanted in the street, but academics and human rights organizations began to use the international human rights frame systematically in the 1990s to argue for universal human rights to fully apply to LGBT persons. This framing gradually began to replace framings based on claims for liberation and emancipation or national conceptions of civil rights. We first trace the early academic writing setting forth the human rights argument for LGBT persons, and then see how the popular media and websites began to share this frame with a much wider audience in the 2010s. We then discuss how the framing of rights for LGBT persons as human rights gradually became institutionalized in various jurisdictions, including Europe (Council of Europe and the European Union), the US, and very recently the UN. The human rights perspective has allowed for significant legal and political gains to be made on behalf of LGBT equality in certain jurisdictions around the world, and holds out the prospect of this international human rights norm spreading further to include more countries and persons under its protection.

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2014

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“…I revisited an earlier scheme of four practical "approaches to linking women"s rights to human rights" observed by Charlotte Bunch (Bunch 1990). These are: 1) Women"s Rights as Political and Civil Rights; 2) Women"s Rights as Socioeconomic Rights; 3) Women"s Rights and the Law; and 4) Feminist Transformation of Human Rights.…”

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“…When plans for a UN world conference on human rights were underway in the early 1990s, many questioned the failure of the international human rights community to date to address women"s experiences, especially in relation to violence against women. This meant asking why abuses primarily affecting women, such as domestic violence, trafficking, female genital mutilation, sexual exploitation, dowry violence, female infanticide, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, forced abortion, and so on, had not been taken seriously as violations of human rights (Bunch 1990).…”

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Linking local and global feminist advocacy: Framing women's rights as human rights in the Republic of Ireland

Reilly

2007

Women's Studies International Forum

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This article argues that global-level feminist advocacy in the 1990s has had a significant impact within feminist advocacy in the Republic of Ireland. An important manifestation of this is the growing engagement of groups in Ireland with women"s human rights discourses in framing feminist claims in the domestic arena and the emergence of related transnational solidarity links. This article identifies six approaches to women"s human rights advocacy in Ireland: human rights facilitating collective action, local-global solidarity and transformation; human rights as modes of (quasi) legal accountability; human rights as a framework for social, economic and gender justice; women"s political participation as a human rights issue; human rights as a challenge to gendered racism; and women"s bodily integrity as a human rights issue. The author argues that these developments reflect a new, outwardly-oriented departure within the Irish women"s movement. In addition to interviews with advocates and assessments of related activities, the article is informed by the author"s involvement in women"s human rights projects in Ireland and internationally.3

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Human Rights and Gender

Naples

Gurr

2015

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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The specification of women's rights became more evident during the United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985), which included the organization of international conferences in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, and Nairobi in 1985. During these years, important documents were developed for addressing women's rights, including the 1976 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that recognized the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil and political rights set forth in the present Covenant (Article 3) and the 1979 Convention to End Discrimination Against Women that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. One result of this decade‐long movement to insert the needs of women into human rights discourse was the recognition that all issues are women's issues; a more material result was the formalization of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), which is now part of UN Women.

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Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights

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