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Women’s rights are the fundamental human rights claimed for women and girls worldwide, and they formed the basis for the women’s rights movement in the nineteenth century and the feminist movement during the twentieth century. In some countries, women’s rights are respected by law and society, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed (Hosken 1981).
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, enshrines “equal rights of men and women,” and addressed both the equality and equity issues. And the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), in 1979, for legal implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. CEDAW confirms the importance of guaranteeing equal political, economic, social, cultural, and civil rights to women and men.
The international human rights treaties require State parties to take proactive steps to ensure that...
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NasserEddine, Z. (2020). Muslim Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Indonesia. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_149-1
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