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But human rights must now be redefined from the perspective of women’s needs. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and […] View resource Journal article Human rights for women: issues of culture and power 01/06/1995 7 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview Human rights for women is a sensitive topic. Focusing on Africa, this article asks why, and suggests the reason is that debates about women’s human rights are subject to battles over culture and power. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues […] View resource Journal article Introduction 01/06/1995 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website. View resource Journal article ‘I, Black Woman, Resist!’ 01/02/1995 4 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender training Media Overview Alzira Rufino, feminist and activist, founded the Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra, the Black Women’s House of Culture, which was the first black women’s centre in Brazil. The centre was opened in the city of Santos in 1990 and is run by the Black Women’s Collective of Baixada Santista, with funding support from War […] View resource Journal article Challenging cultural constraints: a personal testimony 01/02/1995 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview DISHA is an Oxfam partner in Uttah Pradesh, India. It supports grassroots women’s organisations to take practical steps against cultural practices that oppress them. Below is the story of a Muslim housewife who accepts her position, but then starts working for DISHA and abandons her burkha. Despite opposition from village men, religious leaders and her […] View resource Journal article Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law 01/02/1995 2 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview This article argues that for the human rights movement to become international, it must start by appreciating local and national contexts. The expectations and experiences of Muslim women are hugely diverse, depending on the culture they are born into. ‘Women Living Under Muslin Law’ unites women from different countries to organise for change according to […] View resource Book Rights Now! World poverty and the Oxfam campaign 01/01/1995 1 documents 17 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Overview One thousand million people in the world live in poverty. They are denied basic rights which people in rich countries take for granted – such as the right to clean water, or a home, or enough to eat. This booklet explains why so many people are poor and powerless. It shows what some of them […] View resource Book Societies in Transition 01/01/1995 1 documents 71 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Overview In this book, the theme of transition is treated in an innovative and holistic way to include not only the changeover to democracy and free-market economics in former Eastern-bloc countries, but other forms of major social and personal transformation, such as change resulting from armed conflict, and the process of ageing. The emphasis is on […] View resource Book Women and Culture 01/01/1995 1 documents 68 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Gender-based violence Media Overview Throughout the world, cultural norms determine a view of women as subordinate to men, and provide a rationale for denial of women’s economic and political rights. This collection of essays in the Focus on Gender series explores the issues of cultural traditions and beliefs, and their relation to gender and development. Topics discussed in this […] View resource Book Women and Rights 01/01/1995 1 documents 65 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Overview The UN Human Rights Conference in 1993 proclaimed that ‘Women’s rights are human rights’. This book in the Focus on Gender series explores issues of women’s rights including: the legal background and history of human rights legislation View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 … Page 75 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know