The indivisibility of women’s human rights | Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution

The indivisibility of women’s human rights

ID:	HARP-148
Title:	The indivisibility of women’s human rights
Source:	Canadian Woman Studies, v.20(3) Fall’00 pg 11-14 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:	2000
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, enforcement, equality before the law, gender equality, human rights, non-discrimination, social security, woman, politics, civil and political rights, poverty, international human rights treaties, minority rights, self-determination, standard of living
Abstract:	It is clear that in the lived experience of women, economic and social rights cannot be easily separated from civil and political rights. Women who are hungry or homeless will not be active participants in the political life of their societies. Also, poverty traps women in situations of violence, where their lives and security are threatened. Unfortunately, as the international human rights treaties flowing from the UHDR were developed, civil and political rights became separated from economic, social and cultural rights and the two sets of rights were entrenched in separate Covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Civil and political rights, given priority in the human rights framework by western nations, have been treated as “hard” rights that can be enforced by courts, while economic, social, and cultural rights have been treated as “soft” rights, expressions of aspirations, rather than enforceable standards.
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