Rights of women

Scope:
• Concept of women rights
• Women rights
• Issues of women rights
• United nation conventions
1: Universal declaration of human rights, 1948
2: Convention of the abolition of all sorts of discrimination
1979.
Concept of women rights:
Global Fund for Women’s approach focuses on winning
rights for ladies , girls, and every one historically
marginalized people. Women’s humanoid rights are crucial to
attaining gender justice comprehensively.
Women’s rights are the essential human rights that were
preserved by the United Nations for each individual on the
earth nearly 70 years ago.
These rights include the right to live free from brutality,
servitude, and prejudice; to stand cultivated; and educative, to
possess property; to ballot and vote and to earn a fair and
equal wage.
As the now-well-known saying goes, “women’s rights are
human rights.” that's to mention, women are eligible to all or
any of those rights. Until now almost all over around the
world, women and girls are still deprived of them, often
merely because of their gender.
Winning rights for women is about more than giving
opportunities to any individual woman or girl; it is also about
changing how countries and communities work.
It includes changing rules and policies, endearing hearts plus
minds, and investing in strong women’s administrations and
movements.
Universal Fund for females exists to care the resolute and
strongminded efforts of women’s collections who effort a
day to win freedoms for ladies and girls. These groups are
working to verify women can own property, vote, Way for
office, get rewarded fair wages, and live free from violence
including domestic violence, voluptuous assault, and harmful
practices such as female genital defacement
Women Rights:
 Discrimination
 Own property
 Education
 To vote
 To earn a fair and equal wage
Issue of women rights:
Issues commonly associated with the notion of women’s right
include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy.
 To be free from sexual violence
 To Vote
  To hold public office
 To enter into legal contracts
United nation conventions:
Universal declaration of human rights, 1948
Convention on the elimination of all forms at discrimination,
1975
UDHR 1948:
A historic document that was adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly and its third session on 10 December 1948
as resolution 21 in Paris, France
Out of 58 members of the United Nation, 48 voted in favor,
not in contradiction of, eight member refrained and two did
not vote
Enshrines the equal rights of men and women and addressed
both the equality and equally issued
Declaration was the first step in the process oh formulating the
international bill of human rights, which was completed in
1966, and come into force in 1976, after a sufficient number
of countries ratified them.
Declaration consist of preamble and thirty articles.
The preface sets out the ancient and social causes that led to
the necessity of conscripting the declaration.
Articles 1 and 2 established the basic concept of dignity
liberty and equality.
Articles 3 and 5 established other individual rights, such as
right to life and the prohibition of slavery and torture.
Articles 6 and 11 denote to the essential legality of human
right with specific medications cited for their when despoiled
Article 12 and 17 established the rights of the individual
toward the community including such things as freedom of
movement.
Articles 18 and 21 segmented the so called legitimate
authorizations and with spiritual, public and political
autonomies, such as freedom of thoughts, opinion, religion
and conscience, word and peaceable connotation of the
individuals.
Articles 22 and 27 sectioned on individual economics, social
and cultural rights including healthcare
Article 25 defines everyone has a right to a usual of living
suitable for the health and well-being of himself and his
family with food, clothing, housing, medical care and other
necessaries.
It also makes further lodgings for safety in case of physical
debilitation or incapacity and make superior mention of
maintenance given to those in motherhood or childhood.
Articles 28 and 30 established the general ways of using these
rights. The areas in which these rights of the individual cannot
be applied, and that way cannot be overcome against the
individuals.
These articles are concerned with the duty of the individual of
society and the prohibition of use of rights in contravention of
the purpose of the United Nation Organization.
Convention of the elimination of all forms of
discrimination, 1979:
An international agreement adopted in 1979 by the United
Nation General Assembly
Labeled as the universal bill of right for women.
It was inaugurated on 3 September 1981 and has been
approved by 189 states.
38 countries rejected the enforcement.
The Holy see, Iran, Somalia, Sudan and Tonga are not
participants to CEDAW
Convention is designed in six parts with 30 articles.
Part 1:
(Article 1 to 6) focuses on non-discrimination, sex stereotype
and sex trafficking.
Part 2:
(Article 7 to 9) sketches women rights in community domain
with the prominence on political life, illustration of right to
nationality.
Part 3:
(Article 10 to 14) designate the financial and societal rights of
females, predominantly focuses on edification, service and
health.
It also include special protection for rural women and the
problems they face.
Part 4:
(Article 15 to 16) outline women rights to equality in
marriage and family life along with the right to equality before
the law.
Part 5:
(Article 17 to 22) recognized the committee on the abolition
of judgement against women as well as government parties
reporting procedure.
Part 6:
(Article 23 to 30) designate the effects of the resolution of the
other agreements, the assurance of the state parties and the
management of the convention.
Core Provisions:
Article 1:
Define “Discrimination” against women.
Any distinction, exclusion and restriction has the effect or
purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment
or exercise by women irrespective of their marital status, on
the basis of fairness of men and women, of human rights and
essential freedom in the political, economic and social,
cultural, civil or any supplementary field.
Article 2:
Commands that state parties ratifying the convention affirm
intent to protect Gender Equality into their national
legislation, repeat all discriminatory provisions in their laws
and enact new provisions to guard against discrimination
against discrimination against women.
States ratifying that the convention must also create tribunals
and public foundations to ensure women actual protection in
contradiction of discrimination, and take steps to eliminate all
forms of discrimination practiced against women by
individual organization and enterprises.
Article 3:
Require state parties to ensure basic human rights and
fundamental freedom to women on the basis of equality with
men through the political, social, economic and cultural fields.
Article 4:
Notes that adoption of special measure aimed at accelerating
de facto equality between men and women shall not be
considered discrimination. It adds that special defense for
parenthood is not observed as gender discrimination.
Article 5:
Entails government parties to measure to seek to eradicate
prejudgment and custom based on the idea of the subsidiarity
or the supremacy role for men and women.
It also dictates the community parties to ensure the
recognition of the Common Duty of Men and Women in the
Nurture and Growth of their children.
Article 6:
Obliges state parties to take all appropriate measure including
legislation, to suppress all forms of trafficking in women and
exploitation of prostitution of women.
Article 7:
Ensure women equality in political and public life with a
focus on equality in voting, participation in government and
participation of non-governmental organization and
association concerned with the public and political life of the
country.