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Article: Integrating women's human rights into United Nations human rights mechanisms - a guide to U.N. human rights bodies. (Women and Human Rights)
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- WIN News
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Women's International Network. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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PREPARED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTION WATCH (IWRAW) BY THERESA AKUMADU, SEPT. 1994 / HUMPHREY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 301-19th Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
FROM THE INTRODUCTION
"The human rights of women have been on the agenda of international human rights organizations since the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Women (1975-1985). Yet from all indications, women's human rights have remained on the sidelines, marginalized and treated as a humanitarian service in deference to women. . . The approach has elicited growing concern about the future of women's human rights and its place within the United ...