International Feminist Strategies

Claiming the rights of women in a world of blatant gender hierarchies is an international feminist strategy that has been around for a long time. Rhetorically, it has been part of the human rights framework since its very inception, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 already contains important elements of gender equality, thanks to the lobbying efforts of a handful of women's rights advocates at the time. But it took the wave of global consciousness regarding gender inequality that swept the world in the 1970s to make women's rights relevant enough to codify them in a human rights treaty: the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). A decade and a half later, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights (1993) coined the slogan “women's rights are human rights” and thus emphasized the centrality of women's experiences for a holistic understanding of human rights. In the time since then, the human rights discourse has become increasingly intersectional and inclusive. While the scope and content of human rights remain contested, many women's rights activists around the world rely on this framework in their struggles for global justice

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• Women's rights norms as content-in-motion and incomplete practice

  Susanne Zwingel•Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal•2017

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• Gods, Guns, and Globalization

  Roksana Bahramitash, Shampa Biswas et al.•Gods, Guns, and Globalization•2004

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• Women and Globalization

  Mark M Gray, Miki Caul Kittilson et al.•International Organization•2006

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• International Human Rights Law and the Politics of Legitimation

  Open Access•Emilie M Hafner-Burton, Emilie M Hafner‐burton et al.•International Sociology•2008

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