Women Rights Are Human Rights But All Wrong With Northest East

The global campaign for the acceptance of women’s rights as human rights and ofviolence against women as a violation of their human rights, captured centre stage in the1993 Vienna Conference on Human Rights and this led to the introduction of‘mainstreaming gender’ into the international human rights system. While considerableprogress has been made on this approach and for women’s equality at the conceptuallevel, the question still remains as to how these concepts are realised practically and agreat deal of work remains to be done in surfacing the manifestations of the genderedfeatures of the violations of fundamental freedoms. This task is particularly difficult incontexts where there is an ongoing struggle, and women’s needs and rights are eithergrossly violated or marginalised in view of the struggle. Struggles that remain unresolvedor festering for too long often get exacerbated into situations of conflict which in today’scontext are invariably violent in nature and armed. Reports show that these armedconflict situations are an increasing reality in many parts of the world. The UNDepartment for Disarmament Affairs has recorded over 150 armed conflicts in thedeveloping countries since 1945. Reports show that 90 armed conflicts took place duringthe year 1989-1993 in 61 locations around the world involving 60 governments, which isabout one-third of the member states of the United Nations. These conflicts involvingmostly politically marginalised peoples, impact on women in a very special way. Thusthe Beijing Platform for Action highlights the special impact of armed conflict on womenpointing out that although all sections of society are affected…..“women and girls are
particularly affected because of their status in society and their sex”

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