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Article: Women's human rights project - human rights watch.
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- WIN News
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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"All over the world women suffer fundamental human rights violations solely or in part because they are women. These violations often take gender-specific forms. . . Rape in conflict and in custody. Forced pregnancy and involuntary sterilization. Forced trafficking in women and girls. Sexual and physical violence in the home. Legalized and de-facto sex-discrimination. Abuse of women as refugees, as workers, as feminists. These may not be household topics, yet they are part of women's daily lives everywhere. Despite the prevalence of such abuse - and the fact that most governments have international obligations to prohibit and punish violence against women and ...
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