Women's Rights, Human Rights

This book is the most comprehensive and important book available on the subject of women's human rights worldwide. It looks at the transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues and the directions women's human rights are taking. This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.