Human rights for daily use: making the legal case for women’s unpaid work

ID:	HARP-171
Title:	Human rights for daily use: making the legal case for women’s unpaid work
Source:	Canadian Woman Studies , v.18(1) Spr’98 pg 11-20
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Year:	1998
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Keywords:	equality before the law, gender equality, human rights, law, racial discrimination, woman, United Nations, sexual harassment, civil and political rights, violence, security, liberty
Abstract:	In the context of these UN human rights instruments, the continuing substantive and conceptual neglect in the international community of human rights abuses against women is an unquestionable hypocrisy. Compare, for example, the actions of nation states against apartheid or racial discrimination with the inactivity against gender discrimination and sexual segregation in many parts of the world. Compare the efforts to outlaw torture with the lack of emphasis on rape, gender-specific torture, sexual surgery, and genital mutilation. Compare the efforts in the international community to outlaw and condemn slavery with the inattention to the practice of trafficking in women, forced prostitution, forced marriages, or sex tourism. There is great advocacy for fair trials and due process for all “persons,” but where are the calls for a woman’s right to appear before a court at all, to bear witness on an equal basis with men, or to be a complainant for equitable treatment.
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