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HARP-150 |
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Human rights for daily use: making the legal case for women’s unpaid work |
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Canadian Woman Studies, v.18(1), Spr’98, pg 11-20 CBCA Fulltext: http://delos.lib.sfu.ca:8366/cgi-bin/slri/z3950.CGI/137.82.100.228.350957673/?cbca.db |
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Year: |
1998 |
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Canada, citizenship, economic, social, and cultural rights, English, French, gender equality, human rights, religion, woman, ethnic minorities, civil and political rights, international human rights treaties |
Abstract: |
“Human rights” arrived in English as a translation from the French droites des hommes–the rights of men–and wherever I examine civilizations that have espoused the “rights of men” that is precisely what was intended. Men who were slaves were excluded, as were men who were not citizens of that particular state or republic. Women were most definitely left out. The protection of oppressed or endangered groups by international treaty started in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in matters of religious liberty. In the nineteenth century, international treaties were used to protect ethnic and racial groups and to combat slavery and the slave trade. In the twentieth century, these agreements came to prominence in order to improve labour conditions, most notably through the International Labour Organization (ILO), and to enable supervision of the administration of mandated territories. To a limited extent, an individual became a subject with enforceable rights in international law independent of her/his citizenship of a particular state. |
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Keywords: Canada, citizenship, civil and political rights, cultural rights, economic, English, ethnic minorities, French, gender equality, human rights, international human rights treaties, religion, social, woman