Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality, And Women in the New Millennium - Couverture souple

 
9780813536576: Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality, And Women in the New Millennium
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 081353657X ISBN 13 : 9780813536576
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2005

Synopsis

More than a decade ago, three landmark world conferences placed the human rights of women on the international agenda. The first, in Vienna, officially extended the definition of human rights to include a woman's right to self-determination and equality. A year later, in Cairo, this concept was elaborated to deal explicitly with issues of sexuality and procreation. Subsequently, at a conference in Beijing, the international community committed to a wide range of practical interventions to advance women's sexual, social, political, and economic rights.

Despite these accomplishments, we find ourselves at an ever more difficult juncture in the struggle to fully realize women's rights as human rights. Complications, such as terrorism and the "war" against it, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the incursion of religious fundamentalism into governments, and the U.S. government's retreat from the international agenda on sexual and reproductive rights have raised questions about the direction of policy implementations and have prevented straightforward progress.

This timely collection brings together eight wide-reaching and provocative essays that examine the practical and theoretical issues of sexual and reproductive health policy and implementation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Wendy Chavkin is a professor of clinical public health and obstetrics/gynecology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Ellen Chesler is a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, the international foundation supported by George Soros. OSI sponsored the fellowship program that made this project possible.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081353657X
ISBN 13 
9780813536576
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
330
Éditeur
Chavkin Wendy, Chesler Ellen
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0813536561 ISBN 13 :  9780813536569
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2005
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