INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Generally

 

Alfredsson, Gudmundur and Katarina Tomasevski, eds., A Thematic Guide to Documents on the Human Rights of Women: Global and Regional Standards Adopted by Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, and Professional Associations (Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law International, 1995).

 

Alston, Philip, “The Commission on Human Rights,” The United Nations and Human Rights (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1992).

 

Buergenthal, Thomas, International Human Rights in a Nutshell (St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 2nd ed., 1995).

 

Burgers, J. Herman and Hans Danelius, The United Nations Convention Against Torture: A Handbook on the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1988).

 

de Zayas, Alfred M., “The Follow-Up Procedure of the UN Human Rights Committee,” International Commission of Jurists Review, n.47, (December 1991), p. 28.

 

de Zayas, Alfred M., Jacob Moller and Torkel Opsahl, “Application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Under the Optional Protocol by the Human Rights Committee,” Comparative Juridical Review, vol. 26 (1989), p. 3.

 

Henkin, Louis and John Lawrence Hargrove, An Agenda for the Next Century (American Society of International Law, 1994).

 

Hannum, Hurst, ed., Guide to International Human Rights Practice, (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2nd ed., 1992).

 

Shelton, Dinah, “Individual Complaint Procedure under the United Nations 1503 Procedure and Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” Guide to International Human Rights Practice, Hannum, Hurst, ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984)

 

Wagley, Anne, “How to Use the New Human Rights Laws,” National Lawyers Guild Practitioner, vol. 51, n. 3 (Summer 1994), pp. 71-95.

 

Weissbrodt, David and Penny Parker, The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Its Sub-Commission, and Related Procedures: An Orientation Manual (Geneva: International Service for Human Rights, 1993).

 

 

Human Rights Documents Collections

 

Alston, Philip and Henry J. Steiner, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals: Text and Materials (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1996).

 

Brownlie, Ian, ed., Basic Instruments on Human Rights (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 4th ed., 1995).

 

Center for the Study of Human Rights, Twenty-Five Human Rights Documents (New York: Columbia University, 2nd ed., 1994).

 


Center for the Study of Human Rights, Women and Human Rights: The Basic Documents (New York: Columbia University, 1996).

 

Hamalengwa, M., C. Flinterman and E.V.O. Dankwa, The International Law of Human Rights in Africa: Basic Documents and Annotated Bibliography (Boston, MA: M. Nijhoff, 1988).

 

Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Estudios Basicos de Derechos Humanos IV (San Jose, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, 1996).

 

International Women’s Rights Actions Watch and the Commonwealth Secretariat, Assessing the Status of Women: A Guide to Reporting Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Froms of Discrimination Against Women (Minneapolis, MN: International Women’s Rights Actions Watch (IWRAW) and Commonwealth Secretariat, 2nd ed., 1996).

 

International Women’s Tribune Centre, Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important Treaties on Women’s Human Rights (New York: IWTC, 1998).*

 

United Nations, Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, vols. 1 (Universal Instruments) and 2 (Regional Instruments) (New York and Geneva: United Nations, 1994).

 

 

Human Rights Fact-Finding and Reporting

 

Amnesty International, Summary of Selected International Procedures and Bodies Dealing With Human Rights Matters (London: Amnesty International, 1989).

 

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and Union for Civil Liberty, Handbook on Fact-Finding and Documentation of Human Rights Violations (Thailand: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and Union for Civil Liberty, 1993).

 

Centre for Human Rights, Manual on Human Rights Reporting: Under Six Major International Human Rights Instruments, UN Doc. HR/PUB/91/1 (Geneva: United Nations, 1991).

 

English, Kathryn and Adam Stapleton, The Human Rights Handbook:  A Practical Guide for Monitoring Human rights (Colchester, UK: The Human Rights Center, University of Essex, 1995).

 

Human Rights Watch, The Human Rights Global Report on Women’s Rights (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1995).

 

International Labour Office, Manual on Procedures Relating to International Labour Conventions and Recommendations (Geneva: ILO, 1984).

 

IWRAW and the Commonwealth Secretariat, Assessing the Status of Women (Minneapolis: International Women’s Rights Action watch and Commonwealth Secretariat, Second Edition, 1996).

 

Lilich, Richard, Fact-Finding Before International Tribunals (New York: Transnational Publishers, 1992).

Orentlicher, Diane, “Bearing Witness: The Art and Science of Human Rights Fact-Finding,” Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 3 (1990), p. 83.

 

United Nations, Manual on Human Rights Reporting: Under Six Major International Human Rights Instruments (New York: United Nations, 1991).

United Nations, United Nations Reference Guide in the Field of Human Rights (New York: United Nations, 1993).

 

International Conferences on Human Rights

 

(Beijing)

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz, "Universality and Relativism in the Beijing Platform for Action," AWID News, Vol.10, No.1 (March 1996).

 

Bunch, Charlotte, Mallika Dutt, and Susana Fried, “Beijing ‘95: A Global Referendum on the Human Rights of Women,” Women’s Health Journal, No. 2-3, (Chile, 1995) and Canadian Women’s Studies, Col.16, No.3, Summer (York University, 1996).

 

Dunlap, Joan, Rachael Kyte and Mia MacDonald, “Women Redrawing the Map: The World After the Beijing and Cairo Conferences,” SAIS Review, vol. 16, n. 1 Winter-Spring 1996), p. 153.

 

Fisher, Elizabeth with Linda MacKay, Gender Justice: Women's Rights Are Human Rights: A Study/Action Guide Based on the Beijing Platform for Action, (Cambridge, MA: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Cambridge, 1996).

 

Friedlander, Eva and Irene M. Santiago ed., Look at the World Through Women's Eyes: Plenary Speeches from the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing 1995.

 

Frogleap, Beyond Beijing [videorecording], (New York: Women Make Movies, c1996).

 

Government Publications, United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: National Report of Ireland, (Dublin, Ireland: Government Publications, Stationery Office, 1994).

 

Indigenous Woman’s Network, “Summary of Issues Affecting Indigenous Women:  Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China,” Indigenous Woman, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Indigenous Woman’s Network, 1995).

 

President's Interagency Council on Women (U.S.), Follow-Up on U.S. Commitments Made at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, September 4-15, 1995, and on U.S. Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Washington, D.C.: President’s Interagency Council on Women, 1996).

 

Reilly, Niamh, Without Reservation: The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women’s Human Rights (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 1996).

 

UNICEF, UNFPA, and WEDO, “Our Words, Our Voices:  Young Women for Change!” A Report from the project “A Young Woman’s Portrait Beyond Beijing ’95,” (New York: UNICEF, UNFPA, WEDO, 1995).

 

UNIFEM, "UNIFEM in Beijing & Beyond: Celebrating the IV World Conference on Women," (New York: UNIFEM, 1996).

 

UNIFEM and UNICEF, Commitments to Rights: A Cross-Reference Guide to the Human Rights of Women

and Girls in the Beijing Platform for Action, Related UN Conferences and Conventions (New York: UNIFEM and UNICEF, 1998).

United Nations, The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action:  Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, 4-15 September 1995, Dept. of Public Information, United Nations, 1996.

 

 

United States Department of State, UN Fourth World Conference on Women, September 4-15, 1995, Beijing, China: Press Kit (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of State, 1995).

 

Women's Bureau and President's Interagency Council on Women (U.S.), Bringing Beijing Home:  The Fourth World Conference:  A Success for the World’s Women (The White House, Washington, D.C.: Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, and the President’s Interagency Council on Women, 1996).

 

Women’s Environment and Development Organization, Beyond Promises: Governments in Motion One Year After the Beijing Women’s Conference, compiled by the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (New York: Women’s Environment and Development Organization, 1996).

 

 

(Cairo)

 

Center for Women’s Global Leadership, From Vienna to Beijing: the Cairo Hearing on Reproductive Health and Human Rights (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 1995).

 

Dunlap, Joan, Rachael Kyte and Mia MacDonald, “Women Redrawing the Map: The World After the Beijing and Cairo Conferences,” SAIS Review, vol. 16, n. 1 Winter-Spring 1996), p. 153.

 

Rodriguez-Trias, Helen, “From Cairo to Beijing - Women’s Agenda for Equality,” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 86, n. 3 (March 1996), p. 305.

 

(Vienna)

 

Bunch, Charlotte, and Niamh Reilly, Demanding Accountability:  The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women's Global Leadership; New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), 1994).

 

Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Testimonies of the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women’‘s Human Rights: Vienna, June 1993 (New Brunswick, NJ: The Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 1994).

 

INFO-PACK, Information on UN Human Rights Procedure: Beyond Vienna (Geneva: International Service for Human Rights, 1995).

 

Mertus, Julie and Pamela Goldberg, “A Perspective on Women’s Human Rights After the Vienna Declaration: The Inside/Outside Construct,” New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, vol. 26, n. 2 (Winter 1994), p. 201.

 

Trask, Mililani B., "1st Global Human Rights Conference...Vienna," Indigenous Woman, Vol.1, No.4, (Indigenous Woman's Network, 1993).

 

United Nations, World Conference on Human Rights:  The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, A/CONF.157/23.25, (New York: United Nations, 25 June 1993).

 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Human Rights: The New Consensus (London: Regency Press, 1994).

Video

The Vienna Tribunal:  Women's Rights are Human Rights, Augusta Productions, with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1994.

 

Director:  Gerry Rogers

Length:  48:13 minutes

Description:  The Vienna Tribunal highlights the testimonies given by women around the world at the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights at the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993.

Contact:  In the United States: Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 5th Floor,    New York, NY 10013, USA, Fax: (1-212)925-2052; Outside the United States: Augusta Productions, 54 Mullock Street, St. John's NFLD, Canada A1C2RB, Fax: (1-709)579-8090; Video in Spanish: SERPAJ-Mexico, Ignacio Mariscal 132, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico, D.F. 06030, Fax: (52-5)705-0771.

 

 

CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)

 

Byrnes, Andrew and Jane Connors, “Enforcing the Human Rights of Women: A Complaints Procedure for the Women’s Convention?  Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,”” 21 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 679 (1996).

 

Coordination Unit, IV World Conference on Women-Beijing '95, Indian NGOs Report on The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (New Delhi: Coordination Unit, IV World Conference on Women-Beijing '95, 1995).

 

Rehof, Lars Adamn, Guide to the Travaux Preparatoires of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Dordrecht: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1993).

 

United Nations, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, RES34/180, United Nations, Division for the Advancement of Women*, 18 December 1979.

Also available in:  Human Rights:  A Compilation of International Instruments. (ST/HR/1/Rev.5 (Vol. I., Pt. 1)).

 

United Nations,  Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women.  A/RES/48/104, United Nations (23 February 1994).

 

UNIFEM and UNICEF, Advocacy Kit on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (New York: UNIFEM, 1995). 

 

 

REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Generally

 

Alfredsson, Gudmundur and Katarina Tomasevski, eds., A Thematic Guide to Documents on the Human Rights of Women: Global and Regional Standards Adopted by Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, and Professional Associations (Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law International, 1995).

 

Weston, Burns H., Robin Ann Lukes, and Kelly M. Hnatt, “Regional Human Rights Regimes: A Comparison and Appraisal,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 20, n. 4 (October 1987), p. 585.

 

 

African System

 

Armstrong, A. and J. Stewart eds., Women and Law in Southern Africa, Vol.2 (Harare: Zimbabwe Publications, 1990).

 

Amnesty International, A Guide to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (London: Amnesty International, 1991).

 

The Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Gender Violence and Women’s Human Rights in Africa (New Brunswick, NJ: The Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 1994).

 

Feldman, David, “Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of NGOs,” Internatioanl and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 45, n. 3 (July 1996), p. 757.

 

Getecha, Ciru and Jesimen Chipika, eds., Zimbabwe Women’s Voices (Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network, 1995).

 

International Commission of Jurists, How to Address a Communication to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Geneva: International Commission of Jurists, 1992).

 

Jenson, Marianne and Karin Poulsen, Human Rights and Cultural Change: Women in Africa (Copenhagen:  Danish Centre for Human Rights, 1993).

 

Liebenberg, Sandra, ed., The Constitution of South Africa from a Gender Perspective (Cape Town: Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape, 1995).

 

Maramba, Petronella, Bisi Olateru-Olgabegi and Rosalie Tiani Webaneou, Structural Adjustment Programs and the Human Rights of African Women (Harare: Women in Law and Development, 1995).

 

Nyamu, Celestine Itumbi, Rural Women and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Froms of Discrimination Against Women: A Critical Appraisal (monograph, May 1995).

Oloka-Onyango J. and Sylvia Tamale, “The Personal is Political, or Why Women’s Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism,” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 17, n. 4 (November 1995), p. 691.

 

Watts, Charlotte, Susana Osam and Everjoice Win, eds.  The Private is Public: A Study of Violence Against Women in Southern Africa, (Harare: Women in Law and Development, 1995).

 

Welch, Claude E., “Human Rights and African Women: A Comparison of Protections Under Two Major Treaties,” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 15, n. 3 (August 1993), p. 549.

 

 

Asia

 

Asian Human Rights Council, Traffic in Women: Violation of Women’s Dignity and Fundamental Rights - Asian Conference on Traffic in Women, December 11-13, 19991, Seoul, Korea (Seoul: Asian Human Rights Council, 1993).

 

Asian Human Rights Council, In the Court II: Asia Tribunal on Women’s Human Rights in Tokyo - Proceedings of the International Public Hearing on traffic in Women and War Crimes Against Women

 - March 12, 1994, (Tokyo, Asian Human Rights Council, 1994).

 

Guhathakurta, Meghna and Kadija Lina, Empowering Women at the Grassroots:  A Manual for Women’s Human Rights Education (Dhaka: Nagorik Uddyog [Citizen’s Initiative], August 1995).

 

Jones, Sidney, “Regional Instruments and Protecting Human Rights in Asia,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting - American Society of International Law, vol. 89 (1989), p. 475.

 

Law and Society (Symposium on Women and Law in Asia, various authors), Law and Society, vol. 28 (August 1994).

 

Leary, Virginia, “Human Rights in the Asian Context: Prospects for Regional Human Rights Institutions,” Connecticut Journal of International Law, vol. 2, n. 2 (Spring 1987), p. 319.

 

Qayyum, Shabnam, Kashmir men khavatin ki be hurmati [Women and Human Rights in India, Kashmir] (Mirpur, Azad Kashmir: Tahrik-I Hurriyat-I Jammun Kashmir, 1991).

 

Samuels, Harriet, “Upholding the Dignity of Hong King Women: Legal Responses to Sexual Harassment,” Asia Pacific Law Review, vol 4, n. 2 (Winter 1995), p. 90.

 

Van Dyke, John M., “Prospects for the Development of Inter-Governmental Human Rights Bodies in Asia and the Pacific,” Molanesian Law Journal, vol. 16 (1988), p. 28.

 

Welch, Chalude E. and Leary, Virginia A., Asian Perspectives on Human Rights (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990).

 

European System

 

Bloed, Arie, ed., The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe: Analysis and Basic Documents, 1972-1993 (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2nd ed., 1993).

Buquicchio-De Boer, Maud, Equality Beteen the Sexes and the European Convention on Human Rights: A Survey of Strasbourg Case Law (Human Rights Files No. 14) (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1995).

 

Callender, Rosheen and Meenan Frances, Equality in Law Between Men and Women in the E.C. (Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994).

 

Cameron, Iain and Eriksson Maja Kirilova, An Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights (Upsala: Iustus Forlag, 1995).

 

Clements, Luke, European Human Rights: Taking a Case Under the Convention (London: Sweet Maxwell, 1994).

 

Directorate of Human Rights, Council of Europe, Women in the Working World: Equality and Protection Within the European Social Charter (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1995).

 

Gomien, Donna, David Harris and Leo Zwaak, Law and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1996).

 

Drzemczewski, Andrew and Jens Meyer-Ladewig, “Principal Characteristics of the New ECHR Control Mechanism, As Established by Protocol No. 11, Signed on 11 May 1994,” 15 Human Rights Law Journal 81 (1994).

 

Folsom, Ralph, European Union Law (St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1994).

 

Harris, D.J., M. O’Boyle and C. Warbrick, Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (London: Butterworths, 1995).

 

Hendriks, Aart, “Revised European Social Charter,” Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 14, no. 3 (September 1996), p. 341.

 

Jacobs, Francis Geoffrey and Robin C.A. White, The European Convention on Human Rights, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2nd ed., 1996).

 

Klerk, Yvonne, “Protocol No. 11 to the European Convention for Human Rights: A Drastic Revision of the Supervisory Mechanism Under ECHR,” Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 1996).

 

Lasok, K.P.E., The European Court of Justice: Practice and Procedure (London: Butterworth’s, 2nd ed., 1994).

 

Schmidt, Marcus, “Individual Based Human Rights Complaints Procedures Based on United Nations Treaties and the Need for Reform,” International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1992), p. 645.

 

Sweeney, Jane P., “Promoting Human Rights Through Regional Organizations: Women’s Rights in Western Europe,” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 6, n. 4 (November 1984), p. 491.

 

 

Inter-American System

Buergenthal, Thomas, Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (Kehl am Rhein: N.P. Engel, 3rd ed., 1990).

 

Culliton, Katherine M., “Finding a Mechanism to Enforce Women’s Rights to State Protection from Domestic Violence in the Americas,” Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 34, n. 2 (Spring 1993), p. 507.

 

Dulitzky, Ariel, Los Tratados de Derechos Humanos en el Constitucionalismo Iberoamericano, en Estudios Especializados de Derechos Humanos I (Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, 1996).

 

Grossman, Claudio, “The Inter-American System: Opportunities for Women’s Rights,” American University Law Review, vol. 44, n. 4 (April 1995), p. 1304.

 

Krsticevic, Vivianna, “The Development and Implementation of Legal Standards Relating to Impunity in the Inter-American System of Human Rights Protection,” Interrights Bulletin  (1996), p. 91.

 

Krsticevic, Vivianna, La Denuncia individual ante la Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanosen el sistema interamericano de prteccion de los derechos humanos de las mujeres (San Jose, Costa Rica: Insistuto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH), 1997).

 

Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network, The Right to Live Without Violence: Women’s Proposals and Actions, (LACWHN: Chile) Women’s Health Collection, vol.1, 1996

 

Nieto-Navia, Rafael, Introduccion al sistema interamericano de proteccion a los derechos humanos (Bogota: Temis, 1993).

 

Norris, Robert, “Observations in Loco: Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 1979-1983,” Texas Journal of International Law, vol. 19 (1984), p. 285.

 

Nunez Palacios, Susana, Actuacion de la comision y la cotre interamericanas de derechos humanos (Azcapotzalco: Unversidad Autonoma Metropolitana, 1994).

 

Shelton, Dinah L., “Improving Human Rights Protections: Recommendations for Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” American Journal of International Law and Policy, vol. 3 (1988), p. 323.

 

Vivanco, Jose Miguel, Human rights in the Inter-American System: Possibilities and Limitations (booklet, no publisher listed, May 10, 1990).

 

Wilson, Richard J., “Researching the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human rights: A Litigator’s Perspective,” 10 American University International Law and Policy Journal 1 (Fall 1994).

 

 

WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Generally

 

 

Amnesty International, Human Rights Are Women’s Right (New York: Amnesty International USA, 1995).

 

Amnesty International, Human Rights Violations Against Indigenous Peoples (New York: Amnesty International, 1992).

 

Ashworth, Georgina, Changing the Discourse: A Guide to Women and Human Rights (London: CHANGE, 1993).  Contact: CHANGE.

 

Bunch, Charlotte, “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights,” Human Rights Quarterly (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).

 

Bunch, Charlotte, Samantha Frost and Niamh Reilly, “Making the Global Local: International Networking for Women’s Human Rights,” in Kelly D. Askin and Dorean Koeing ed.s, Women’s International Human Rights: A Reference Guide (New York: Transnational Publishers, 1998).

 

Butegwa, Florence, “Women’s Human Rights: A Challenge to the International Human Rights Community,” The Review (International Commission of Jurists, 1993), pp. 71-80.

 

Charlesworth, H., C. Chinkin and S. Wright, “Feminism Approaches to International Law,” American Journal of International Law, 1991.

 

Cook, Rebecca J., “State Responsibility for Violations of Women’s Human Rights,” Harvard Human Rights Journal (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Human Rights Journal, 1994), pp. 125-175.

 

Cook Rebecca, J., ed., Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).

Coomaraswamy, Radhika, Reinventing International Law: Women's Rights as Human Rights in the International Community (Cambridge, MA: Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, 1997).

 

Dutt, Mallika, With Liberty and Justice for All:  Women’s Human Rights in the United States, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 1994..

 

Freeman, Marsha A. and Arvonne S. Fraser, “Women’s Human Rights: Making the Theory a Reality,” Human Rights: An Agenda for the Next Century (Washington, D.C.: American Society of International Law, 1994), pp. 103-135.

 

Fried, Susana T. ed., The Indivisibility of Women's Human Rights: A Continuing Dialogue (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1995).

 

International Service for Human Rights, Women’s Rights in the United Nations: A Manual on How the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Can Protect Women’s Rights (Geneva: International Service for Human Rights, 1995).

 

ISIS Internacional, La mujer ausente:  Derechos humanos en el mundo, (Second Edition), (Santiago, Chile: ISIS Internacional, 1996). 

 

Kerr, Joanna, ed., Ours By Right:  Women’s Rights as Human Rights (Atlantic Highlands, NJ and London: Zed Books, in association with The North-South Institute, 1993).

Mertus, Julie with Mallika Dutt and Nancy Flowers, Local Action/ Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women's Global Leadership; New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), 1998).

(editions available in Albanian, Arabic, Croatian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and other languages - contact The Center for Women’s Global Leadership).

 

Peters, Julie and Andrea Wolper, eds., Women’s Rights, Human Rights:  International Feminist Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 1995).

 

Schuler, Margaret A. and Dorothy Q. Thomas, Women's Human Rights Step by Step: A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights Law and Mechanisms to Defend Women's Human Rights (Washington, D.C.: Women, Law & Development International, 1997).

 

Schuler, Margaret, ed., Claiming Our Place: Working the Human Rights Systems to Women’s Advantage (Washington D.C.: Women, Law and Development International, 1993).

 

Schuler, Margaret, ed., From Basic Needs to Basic Rights:  Women's Claim to Human Rights (Washington, D.C.: Women, Law and Development International, 1995).

 

Tomasevski, Katarina, Women and Human Rights  (London; New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993).

 

Yarbrough, Tinsley E., The Reagan Administration and Human Rights (New York: Praeger, 1985).

 

See also: WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES at the Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto, includes a bibliography on international women’s rights

 

 

Development

 

Adede, "International Environmental Law from Stockholm to Rio-An Overview of Past Lessons and Future Challenges," Environmental Policy and Law Journal, Vol. 22, (1982).

 

Alley Hamid, Mahfouda, "Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)," in Copenhagen Hearing on Economic Justice and Women's Human Rights, World Summit on Social Development, Copenhagen, March 1995, (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1995).

 

Bacon, David, "Organizing the High-tech Sweatshops," Third Force: Issues & Actions in Communities of Color (Sept/Oct 1993) pp. 23-25.

 

Chhachhi, Amrita and Renene Pittin, Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy:  Women Organizing in the Process of Industrialization (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996).

 

ISIS International and DAWN, Confronting the Crisis in Latin America: Women Organizing for Change (ISIS International and DAWN, No. 2, 1988).          

 

Fried, Susana, "Women's Experiences as Small Scale Entrepreneurs," in Nelly Stromquist, ed., Encyclopedia of Third World Women (1997).

 

Fried, Susana T., "Women's Experience in Microenterprises," Equal Means, (Summer 1995).

Goetz, Anne Marie, ed., Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development (New York: Zed Books, 1997).

 

Gordon, April A., Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy: Gender and Development in Africa, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996).

 

Haider, Raana, Gender and Development (Cairo, Egypt: American Unversity in Cairo Press, 1996).

 

Harcourt, Wendy, Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development (London and NJ: Zed Books, in association with Society for International Development, 1994).

 

Henderson, Helen Kreider with Ellen Hansen, ed., Gender and Agricultural Development:  Surveying the Field (Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1995).

 

Hilkka, Pietila and Jeanne Vickers, with a foreword by Gertrude Mongella, Making Women Matter: The Role of the United Nations (London and NJ: Zed Books, 1994).

 

Hodgson, C. and G. Reardon, "High-Tech Hazards: Beyond the Factory Gate," in Reardon, G. ed.,  Women and the Environment (London: Oxfam, 1993).

 

House-Midamba, Bessie and Felix K. Ekechi, eds., African Market Women and Economic Power:  The Role of Women in African Economic Development (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).

 

International Labour Organization, ABC of Women Workers' Rights: A Practical Guide (Geneva: International Labour Organization, 1993).

 

Jahan, Rounaq, The Elusive Agenda:  Mainstreaming Women in Development (London and NJ: Zed Books, 1995).

 

Johnson-Hernandez, Beatrice, "Women Fight Free Trade," Third Force: Issues & Actions in Communities of Color (May/June 1994), pp. 35-38.

 

Kabeer, Naila, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (London and NY: Verso, 1994).

 

Khoury, Nabil F. and Valentine Moghadam, eds., Gender and Development in the Arab World:  Women’s Economic Participation:  Patters and Policies (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1995).

 

Leon, Magdalena, "The Struggle for Social Security for the Domestic Worker," Confronting the Crisis in Latin America: Women Organizing for Change (Isis International and Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), No. 2, 1988), pp. 87-93.

Massiah, Joycelin, Women in Developing Economies:  Making Visible the Invisible (Paris: UNESCO, 1993).

 

Meltzer, Erica in cooperation with Dunja Pastizzi-Ferencic and Patrice Robineau, Women in the ECE Region: A Call for Action: Highlights of the ECE High-level Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Fourth World Conference on Women (New York: United Nations, 1995).

 

Mikell, Gwendolyn, ed.,  African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).

 

Modhadam, Valentine M., ed., Patriarchy and Economic Development:  Women’s Positions at the End of the Twentieth Century (New York: Clarendon Press, 1996).

 

Modhadam, Valentine M., Development and Patriarchy:  The Middle East and North Africa in Economic and Demographic Transition (Helsinki, Finland: World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University, 1992).

 

Momsen, Janet Henshall and Vivian Kinnaird, eds., Different Places, Different Voices:  Gender and Development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (London and NY: Routledge, 1993).

 

Nagel, Stuart S., Asian Development and Public Policy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994).

 

Peterson, Maggie, issue ed., Shadows Behind the Screen:  Economic Restructuring and Asian Women, World Conference on Women (4th:  Beijing) (Hong Kong: ARENA; London: CIIR, 1995).

 

Roy, Kartik C., Tisdell, Clement A. and Hans C. Blomqvist, eds., Economic Development and Women in the World Community (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996).

 

Sachs, Carolyn E., Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment (Boulder, CO: WestView Press, 1996).

 

Scott, Catherine Virginia, Gender and Development:  Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory (Boulder, CO: L. Rienner, 1995).

 

Sen, Gita and Caren Grown, "Development Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives," Monthly Review Press (New York, 1987).

 

Shellenbarger, Sue, "When Workers' Lives are Contingent on Employers' Whims," Wall Street Journal, (New York, 1 February 1995), p.B1.

 

Shiva, Vandana, ed., Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide (Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1994).

 

Smith-Sreen, Poonam, Accountability in Development Organizations: Experiences of Women's Organizations in India (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995).

 

Snyder, Margaret C., African Women and Development: A History (Atlantic Highlands, NJ and London: Zed Books, 1995).

 

Sponsel, Leslie, "The Yanomami," in Johnston, Barbara ed., Human Rights and the Environment: Examining the Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis (The Association for Applied Anthropology, 1993).

 

Thomas-Slayter, Barbara P., and Dianne Rocheleau with Isabella Asamba, et. al., Gender, Environment, and Development in Kenya:  A Grassroots Perspective (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1995).

 

Tinker, Irene, Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

 

Turpin, Jennider and Lois Ann Lorentzen, eds., The Gendered New World Order:  Militarism, Development, and the Environment (New York: Routledge, 1996).

 

United Nations, The Impact of Economic and Political Reform on the Status of Women in Eastern Europe: Proceedings of a United Nations Regional Seminar (Sales No. E.92.IV.4 92-1-130152-1).

 

United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Women's Access to Credit in the Dominican Republic: A Case Study, (Santo Domingo Dominican Republic: INSTRAW, 1990).

 

United Nations, "Women in a Changing Global Economy: 1994 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development," UN Sales No. E.95.IV.5, (1995).

 

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development, Justice Denied: Human Rights and the International Financial Institutions (Nepal: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development. INHURED International, 1994).

 

Venkateswaran, Sandhya, Environment, Development and the Gender Gap (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995).

 

Visyanathan, Nalini (coordinator), Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff, Nan Wiegersma, eds., The Women, Gender, and Development Reader (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1997).

 

 

Education

 

AAUW, Hostile Hallways:  The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America’s Schools (Washington, D.C.: AAUW, June 1993).

 

Ballard, Marcella, Women and Literacy (London: Zed Books, 1991).

 

Claessen, Jeanette and Lillian van Wesemael-Smit eds., Reading: the Word and the World (The Netherlands: Vrouwenberaad Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, June 1992).

Fine, Michelle and Nancie Zane, “Being Wrapped Too Tight:  When Low-Income Women Drop Out of School,” in Petrie, H., ed., Dropouts from School (New York: 1989).

 

Isis International, Growing Together: Women, Feminism and Popular Education (Rome, Italy: Network for Women and Popular Education of the Latin American Council on Adult Education and Isis International, 1988).

 

International Council for Adult Education, “Voices Rising. A Bulletin about Women and Popular Education,”  (Toronto: International Council for Adult Education, August 1989).

 

Kearney, Mary-Louise and Anne Holden Ronning, eds., with foreword by Attiya Inayatullah, Women and the University Curriculum:  Towards Equality, Democracy, and Peace (London and Bristol: J. Kingsley Publishers; Paris: UNESCO Pub., 1996).

 

Lewis, Sue and Anne Davies, Gender Equity in Mathematics and Science (Canberra, Austalia: Curriculum Development Center, 1988).

 

McCormick, Theresa Mickey with foreword by Nel Noddings, Creating the Nonsexist Classroom: A Multicultural Approach (New York: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1994).

 

NGO Committee on UNICEF, “Education of the Girl Child, Her Right, Society’s Gain,” Report of the NGO Conference, Educational Working Group, NGO Committee on UNICEF, (New York: NGO Committee on UNICEF, 21-22 April 1992).

 

Obura, Anna, “Changing Images: Portrayal of Girls and Women in Kenya Textbooks,” African Center for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya, 1991, in Action Guide for Girl's Education, (Nairobi: Bay Area Girls' Education Network, 1995).

 

Sadker, Myra and David, Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993).

 

Taylor, Kathleen and Catherine Marienau, Learning Environments for Women’s Adult Development:  Bridges Toward Change (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995).

 

UN Public Information Department, Literacy:  A Key to Women's Empowerment, (DPI/1567/Rev.2/WOM), from Press Kit for the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, China: 1995).

 

(Human Rights Education)

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz and Haleh Vaziri, Claiming Our Rights:  A Manual for Women’s Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies (Bethesda, MD: Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1996).

 

Andreopoulos, George and Richard Pierre Claude, eds., Human Rights Education for the 21st Century:  Conceptual and Practical Challenges (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996).

 

Claude, Prof. Richard, "Human Rights Education in the Philippines," Paper presented at the Annual Convention of International Studies Association, Vancouver (March 23, 1991).

 

 

Family Law

 

United Nations, The Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and the Registration of Marriage,(1957), found in Center for the Study of Human Rights, Women and Human Rights: The Basic Documents (New York: Columbia University, 1996) pp.182-184.

 

Mertus, Julie, “State Discriminatory Family Law and Customary Abuses,” in Peters, Julie and Andrea

Wolper, eds., Women’s Rights, Human Rights:  International Feminist Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Moore, M., “Consumerism Fuels Dowry Death Wave,” The Washington Post (17 March 1995).

 

Gender Violence

 

(Generally)

 

Asia Watch and the Women’s Human Rights Project, Double Jeopardy:  Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan:  A Report (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1992).

 

Blatt, Deborah, “Recognizing Rape as a Method of Torture,” NYU Review of Law and Social Change (New York: New York University Law Publications, 1992).

 

Boyer, Debra and David Fine, “Sexual Abuse as a Factor in Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Maltreatment,” Family Planning Perspectives, No. 24 (Jan/Feb 1992), pp. 4-12.

 

Brasiliero, Ana Maria ed., Women Against Violence: Breaking the Silence: Reflection on Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean NY: UNIFEM,1997).

 

Bunch, Charlotte, and Roxanna Carrillo, Gender Violence:  A Development and Human Rights Issue (New Brunswick, NJ: The Center for Women's Global Leadership,  1991).

 

Bunch, Charlotte, Roxanna Carrillo, and Rima Shore, “Violence Against Women”, Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).

 

Carrillo, Roxanna. Battered Dreams: Violence Against Women As an Obstacle to Development (New York: UNIFEM, 1992).

 

Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Gender Violence and Women's Human Rights in Africa: A Symposium (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1994).

 

Connors, Jane, "Government Measures to Confront Violence Against Women." in Davies, Miranda ed. Women and Violence (London: Zed Books, Ltd., 1994).

 

Coomaraswarmy, Radhika, Report(s) Submitted by the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswarmy, in Accordance with Commission on Human Rights Resolution, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1995/42 (1995); UN Doc. E/CN.4/1996/53 (1996); U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1997/47 (1997), E/CN.4/1998/54 (1998).

 

Coomaraswamy, Radhika, "Of Kali Born: Violence and the law in Sri Lanka," in Schuler, Margaret ed., Freedom from Violence: Women's Strategies from Around the World (New York: UNIFEM, 1992).

 

Copelon, Rhonda Domestic Violence as Torture

 

Creighton, Allan with Paul Kiver, Helping Teens Stop Violence:  A Practical Guide for Educators, Counselors, and Parents (Hunter House, 1992).

 

Davies, Miranda ed, Women and Violence: Realities and Responses Worldwide (London: Zed Books, Ltd., 1994).

 

Eastern and Central Africa Women in Development Network (ECA-WIDNET), ed., Violence Against Women:  Trainers Manual (Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 1997).

 

Ekotto, Ngobo, "Women, Economics and Violence: The Case of Cameroon," in Speaking About Rights, Newsletter of Canadian Human Rights Foundation (1996), pp. 13-15.

 

Fetherson, A.B., “UN Peacekeepers and Cultures of Violence,” Cultural Survival (Spring 1995).

 

Heise, Lori. "Violence Against Women: Global Organizing for Change," in Edleson, Jeffrey and Zvi Eisikovits eds. The Future of Intervention with Battered Women and Their Families (London: Sage Pub., 1996).

 

Heise, Lori, Adrienne Germain and Jacqueline Pitanguy, Violence Against Women:  The Hidden Health Burden (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1994).

 

Heise, Lori, Alanagh Raikes and Charlotte Watts, “Violence Against Women:  A Neglected Public Health Issue in Less Developed Countries,” Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 39, No. 9 (1994), pp. 1165-1179.

 

Jilani, Hina, "Whose Laws? Human Rights and Violence," in Schuler, Margaret ed., Freedom from Violence: Women's Strategies from Around the World (New York: UNIFEM, 1992).

 

Mertus, Julie and Simon Heller,  “Norplant Meets the New Eugenicists:  The Impermissiblity of Coerced Contraception,” St. Louis Public Law Review, Vol. XI, No. 2 (1992).

 

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Curriculum on Domestic Abuse (Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, 1996).

 

Thomas, Dorothy Q., All Too Familiar:  Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1996).

 

Thomas, Dorothy Q. and Michele E. Beaseley, “Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue,” Human Rights Quarterly (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), pp. 36-62.

 

United Nations, Declaration on Violence Against Women, General Assembly Resolution 48/104 (20 December 1993).

 

United Nations, Reports submitted by Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences.  Doc. E/CN.4/1995/42 (1995); Doc. E/CN.4/1996/53 (1996); Doc. E/CN.4/1997/47 (1997), E/CN.4/1998/54 (1998) (Geneva: Commission on Human Rights, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998).

 

Watts, Charlotte, Susanna Osam and Everjoice Win, eds., The Private is Public:  A Study of Violence Against Women in Southern Africa (Harare, Zimbabwe: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), 1995).

 

Women, Law and Development International, State Responses to Domestic Violence” Current Status and Needed Improvements (Washington, D.C.,: Women Law and Development, 1996).

 

(War and Conflict Situations)

B.a.B.e.- Be active, Be emancipated, “Status of Women's Rights in Croatia," (Zagrab: B.a.B.e., Autumn 1994).

 

Butegwa, Florence, Stella N. Mukasa and Susan Mogere, Human Rights of Women in Conflict Situations  (Harare, Zimbabwe: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), 1995).

 

 

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, Meeting the Health Care Needs of Women Survivors of the Balkan Conflict, (New York: The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, 1993).

 

Green, Jennifer, Rhonda Copelon, Patrick Cotter and Beth Stephens, “Affecting the Rules for the Prosecution of Rape and Other Gender-Based Violence Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Feminist Proposal and Critique,” Hastings Women’s Law Journal, vol. 5, No. 2 (CA: University Of CA, Hastings College of Law, Summer 1994).

 

Human Rights Watch/Africa, Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath, (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1996).

 

Kirk, Robin, Untold Terror: Violence Against Women in Peru's Armed Conflict / A Report by Americas Watch and the Women's Rights Project, (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1992).

 

Richter-Lyonette, Eleanor ed., In the Aftermath of Rape: Women's Rights, War Crimes and Genocide (Givrins, Switzerland: The Coordination of Women's Advocacy, 1996).

 

Richters, Johanna Maria, Women, Culture, and Violence:  A Development, Health and Human Rights Issue (Leiden, The Netherlands: The Netherlands Women and Autonomu Centre (VENA), Leiden University, 1994).

 

Sajor, Indai Lourdes, Common Grounds: Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations (Quezon City: Asian Center for Women’s Human Rights, 1998).

 

Scott, Pippa and May Anne Schwalbe, "A Living Wall: Former Yugoslavia: Zagreb, Slavonski Brod & Sarajevo, October 3-18, 1993," Report to the Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children (New York: 1993).

 

Stiglmayer, Alexandra, ed., with translations by Marion Faber and foreword by Roy Gutman, Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994).

 

Thomas, Dorothy Q. and Regan E. Ralph, “Rape in War: Challenging the Tradition of Impunity,” SAIS Review (Washington D.C.: Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy, 1994).

 

 

(Violence Against Refugee Women)

 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sexual Violence Against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response (Geneva: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1995).

 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Women Refugees in International Perspectives, 1980-1990 (Geneva: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1997).

Marin, Leni, and Blandina Lansang-De Mesa, eds.,  Women on the Move:  Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Rights Abuses Against Immigrant and Refugee Women (Family Violence Prevention Fund, 1993).

 

United Nations, Sexual Violence Against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response (Geneva: High Commissioner for Refugees, 1995).

 

See also below, “Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Women”

 

 

Girls / Children

 

 

Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sex and American Teenagers (New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994).

 

Alston, Philip, ed.,  The Best Interests of the Child:  Reconciling Culture and Human Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

 

Amnesty International British Section, Childhood Stolen:  Grave Human Rights Violations Against Children (London: Amnesty International British Section, 1995).

 

Boyer, Debra and David Fine, “Sexual Abuse as a Factor in Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Maltreatment,” Family Planning Perspectives 24 (Jan/Feb 1992), pp. 4-12.

 

Women's World Summit Foundation, "Children of the Future," 75 percent Global newsletter, Women's World Summit Foundation, No. 4 (Fall 95/Spring 96).

 

Creighton, Allan with Paul Kiver, Helping Teens Stop Violence:  A Practical Guide for Educators, Counselors, and Parents (Hunter House, 1992).

 

Directorate of Human Rights, Children and Adolescents:  Protection Within the European Social Charter, Study prepared by the Directorate of Human Rights on the basis of the case law of the Committee of Independent Experts (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1996).

 

Franklin, Bob, ed.,  The Handbook of Children’s Rights (London: Routledge, 1995).

 

Gilligan, C., A Rogers, and D. Jolman, eds., Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy:  Reframing Resistance, (New York: Hayworth Press, 1991).

 

Kennedy, Margaret, “Rights for Children Who Are Disabled,” in Franklin, Bob, ed.,  The Handbook of Children’s Rights (London: Routledge, 1995).

 

Kuckreja Sohoni, Neera, The Burden of Childhood:  A Global Inquiry into the Status of Girls (Oakland, CA: Third Party Publishers, 1995).

 

Kurz, Kathleen M. and Cynthia J. Prather, Improving the Quality of Life of Girls (Washington, D.C.:  AWID; New York: UNICEF, 1995).

 

Ms. Foundation Report, citing Lyn Brown, “Narratives of Relationship:  The Development of the Care Voice in Girls Age 7-16,” Ph.D. dissertation, (Harvard, 1991).

Muntarbhorn, Vitit, “International Perspectives on Child Prostitution in Asia,” in Forced Labor:  The Prostitution of Children (U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1996).

 

NGO Committee on UNICEF, “Education of the Girl Child, Her Right, Society’s Gain.” Report of the NGO Conference, Educational Working Group, NGO Committee on UNICEF (New York: 21-22 April 1992).

 

Population Reference Bureau and Center for Population Options,  The World’s Youth 1994:  A Special Focus on Reproductive Health, (Washington D.C.: Population Reference Bureau and Center for Population Options, March 1994).

 

Senanayake, P. and M. Ladjali, “Adolescent Health:  Changing Needs,” International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Vol. 46, No. 2 (August 1994).

 

Senderowitz, J., “Adolescent Health:  Reassessing the Passage to Adulthood,” World Bank Discussion Paper 272 (World Bank, January 1995).

 

Stevenson, Michael R., Gender Roles Through the Life Span:  A Multidisciplinary Perspective (Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1994).

 

UNICEF, “Girls and Women:  A UNICEF Development Priority,” (Toronto: UNICEF, 1993).

 

UNICEF, The Girl Child:  An Investment in the Future (Toronto: UNICEF, Toronto, 1994).

 

United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (See Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, above).

 

United Nations, “The Girl Child,” Fact Sheet 8, United Nations Press Kit for The Fourth World Conference on Women.  Beijing, China, 1995.

 

United States Department of Labor, Forced Labor:  The Prostitution of Children (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 1996).  

(Electronic access:

 

 

Van Bueren, Geraldine, The Best Interests of the Child:  International Co-operation on Child Abduction (London: British Institute of Human Rights, 1993).

 

West, D.J., ed., Sexual Victimization:  Two Recent Researches into Sex Problems and Their Social Effects (Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1985).

 

World Health Organization, “The Health of Youth, Facts for Action:  Youth and Reproductive Health,” A42/Technical Discussions/5, (Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO), 1989).

 

 

 

Health

 

(Generally)

 

Gilligan, C., A Rogers, and D. Jolman, eds., Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy:  Reframing Resistance, Hayworth Press, New York, 1991.

Harvard School of Public Health, Health and Human Rights: An International Quarterly Journal, Vol.1, No.4., Special Focus: Women’s Health and Human Rights

 

Sen, Amartya,  “Population: Delusion and Reality,” The New York Review of Books (22 September 1994).

 

Senanayake, P. and M. Ladjali, “Adolescent Health:  Changing Needs,” International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Vol. 46, No. 2 (August 1994).

 

Senderowitz, J.,  “Adolescent Health:  Reassessing the Passage to Adulthood,” World Bank Discussion Paper 272 (January 1995).

 

Smyke, Patricia,  Women and Health (London: Zed Books Ltd., 1994).

 

Population Reference Bureau and Center for Population Options “The World’s Youth 1994:  A Special Focus on Reproductive Health” (Washington, D.C.:  Population Reference Bureau and Center for Population Options, March 1994).

 

United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), Women, Population and the Environment (New York: United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), 1992).

 

World Health Organization, “Bridging the Gaps:  The WHO World Health Report” (Geneva: World Health Organization, 1995).

 

World Health Organization, “The Health of Youth, Facts for Action:  Youth and Reproductive Health.” A42/Technical Discussions/5, (Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO), 1989).

 

 

(Female Genital Mutilation)

 

RAINBO, "Intersections between Health and Human Rights:  The Case for Female Genital Mutilation" (New York: RAINBO, 1995).

 

Toubia, Nahid, "Female Genital Mutilation:  A Call for Global Action" (New York: RAINBO, 1995).

 

 

(Women with Disabilities)

 

Fine, Michelle and Adrienne Asch, eds., Women with Disabilities:  Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988).

 

Kennedy, Margaret, “Rights for Children Who Are Disabled,” in Franklin, Bob, ed.,  The Handbook of Children’s Rights (London: Routledge, 1995).

 

Lewis, Cindy and Susan Sygall, Loud, Proud & Passionate:  Including Women with Disabilities in International Development Programs, 1st ed. (Eugene, OR: Mobility International USA, 1997).

 

Morris, Jenny, Pride Against Prejudice:  Transforming Attitudes to Disability (London: The Women’s Press, 1993).

 

Moss, Kary L., ed., Man-made Medicine:  Women’s Health, Public Policy, and Reform (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996).

Purtilo, Ruth B., “Women and Rehabilitiation,” in Marinelli, Robert P. and Arthur E. Dell Orto, eds., The Psychological and Social Impact of Disability (New York: Springer Pub. Co., 1991).

 

Stace, Sheila, Vocational Rehabilitation for Women with Disabilities (Geneva: International Labour Office, 1986).

 

U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau, Women with Work Disabilities (Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women’s Bureau, 1992).

 

 

Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Women

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz, Women in Exile (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1994).

 

American Friends Service Committee, Hear Our Voices:  Resource Directory of Immigrant & Refugee Women's Projects (American Friends Service Committee, 1995).

 

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (1966) (See Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, above).

 

Donahue and Flowers, adapted from Uprooted: Refugees and the United States (Hunter House, 1995).

 

Family Violence Prevention Fund and Center for Women's Global Leadership, Migrant Women's Human Rights in G-7 Countries: Organizing Strategies (New Brunswick, NJ: The Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1997).

 

Heyzer, Noeleen, Geertje Lycklama a Nijehlt, and Nedra Weerakoon, eds., The Trade in Domestic Workers: Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of International Migration (London: Asian Pacific Development Center & Zed Books Ltd., 1994).

 

Villalba, May-an, "Understanding Asian Women in Migration: Towards a Theoretical Framework," Women in Action, Vol. 2 & 3 (Philippines: ISIS International, Manila, 1993).

 

Popline, “Young and Older Women Migrate." Popline, vol. 18 (May-June 1996) {Special Issue}

 

 

The Media

 

Bhasin, K. and Bina Agarwal, eds., Women and Media: Analysis, Alternatives and Action (ISIS International and Pacific and Asian Women’s Forum (PAWF), 1984).

 

Flanders, Laura, Real Majority, Media Minority: the Costs of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Monroe Me: Courage Press, 1997).

 

Focus for Change, Class, Gender and Race Inequality and the Media in an International Context (Focus for Change, 1992).

 

Gallagher, Margaret in collaboration with My von Evler, An Unfinished Story: Gender Perspectives on Media Employment (Paris: UNESCO, 1995).

 

Gallager, Margaret, “Women and the Media,” UN International Authors Series: Focus on Women, (DPI/1656/WOM) (New York: United Nations, March 1995).

Women's Information Centre at the Foundation for Women, Power of Media and Subordination of Women: The Case of Thailand (Bangkok: Women's Information Centre at the Foundation for Women, 1989).

 

Tax, Meredith, et.al., “The Power of the Word:  Culture, Censorship and Voice,” Women’s World (New York: 1995).

 

 

Politics and Political Participation

 

Afshar, Haleh, Women and Politics in the Third World ( London: Routledge, 1995).

 

Bauer, Jan, "Only Silence Will Protect You: Women, Freedom of Expression, and the Language of Human Rights Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development," Paper No. 6 (Montreal: International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 1996).

 

Brasileiro, Ana Maria, Building Democracy with Women; Reflecting on Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean (New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1996).

 

Chan, H., Women at the Periphery of Power: A Brief Look at Why Women are Under-represented in South Africa's Premier Democratic Local Elections (Johannesburg, South Africa: IDASA/LOGIC, 1996).

 

Hicks, Janine, "From the Ballot Box to the Global Village," Women and Local Democracies:  LOGICal steps (Johannesburg, South Africa: IDASA/LOGIC, July 1996).

 

Jiggins, Janice, Changing the Boundaries:  Women-Centered Perspectives on Population and the Environment (Washington: Island Press, 1994).

 

Karl, Marilee, Women and Empowerment: Participation and Decision-Making, (London: Zed Press, 1995).

      

Liswood, Laura A., Women World Leaders (New York: Pandora, September 1995).

 

Narayan, Uma, “Working Together Across Difference:  Some Considerations on Emotions and Political Practice,” Hypatia, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1988).

 

 Lokayan Bulletin, "Political Participation in Women: Towards Beijing Voices from India," Lokayan Bulletin   12½ (July-October 1995). {Special Issue}

 

Rule, Wilma and Norma C. Noonan, Russian Women in Politics and Society (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996).

 

Waylen, Georgina, Gender in Third World Politics (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996).

United Nations, Women in Politics and Decision- Making in the Late Twentieth Century, (Sales No. E.91.IV.3 92-1-130144-0) (New York: United Nations).

 

IDASA/LOGIC, "Women in Local Government: Breaking Barriers," Proceedings of the Women in Local Government: Breaking Barriers Conference (Johannesburg, South Africa: IDASA/LOGIC, 17-18 June 1996).

 

 

Reproductive Rights

 

Bolan, Reed, Promoting Reproductive Rights: A Global Mandate (New York: The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, 1997).

 

Coliver, Sandra ed., The Right to Know: Human Rights and Access to Reproductive Health Information, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1995).

 

Copelon, Rhonda and B.E. Hernandez, Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health as Human Rights: Concepts and Strategies - An Introduction for Activists (New York: City University of New York Law School, International Human Rights Clinic, 1996).

 

Corrêa, Sonia with Rebecca Reichmann, Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South (St. Michael, Barbados: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN); London: Zed Books, 1994).

 

Freedman, L. and S. Isaacs, “Human Rights and Reproductive Choice,” Studies in Family Planning, No. 24 (1993), pp. 18-30.

 

Human Rights Watch, “Sterilization of Romany Women.” in Struggling for Ethic Identity:  Czechoslavakia’s Endangered Species (New York: Helsinki Watch, Human Rights Watch, 1992).

 

Maschke, Karen J., ed., Reproduction, Sexuality, and the Family (New York: Garland Pub., 1997).

 

Murphy-Lawless, Jo,  “Fertility, Bodies and Politics:  The Irish Case,” Reproductive Health Matters, No. 2, (November 1993).

 

National Abortion Rights Action League, Who Decides?: A State-by-State Review of Abortion and               Reproductive Rights (Special ed., 1998) (Washington, D.C.: The NARAL Foundation: NARAL, 1998).

 

Park, Chai Bin and Nam-Hoon Cho, “Consequences of Son Preference in a Low-Fertility Society:  Imbalance of Sex Ration at Birth in Korea,” Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 1995).

 

Sabala and Kranti,  Mira Sadgopal ed., Na Shariram Nadhi:  My Body is Mine (Bombay: Saptahik Mudran, 1995).

 

Sanchez, M.T.,  “We Are Part of a Broad Social Movement,”  Women’s Health Network,  3-4/1995 (July-December 1995).

 

Testimony of Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island, 161 Cong. Rec. H 10063, Vol. 139, No. 161, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance Act of 1993 (FACE).

 

 

Sexual Orientation

 

Fried, Susana and Ilana Landsberg Lewis, “Sexual Rights from Concept to Strategy”,  in Kelly D. Askin and Dorean Koeing ed.s,  Women’s International Human Rights: A Reference Guide (New York: Transnational Publishers, 1998).

 

Gessen, Masha, The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men in the Russian Federation (San Francisco, CA: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), 1994).

Miller, Alice M., Ann Janette Rosga, and Meg Satterthwaite.  “Health, Human Rights and Lesbian Experience”, Health and Human Rights: An International Quarterly Journal (Vol.1, No.4, )pp. 428-448.

 

Rosenbloom, Rachel, ed., with a foreword by Charlotte Bunch, Unspoken Rules:  Sexual Orientation and Women’s Human Rights (London and NY: Cassell, 1996).

 

 

Trafficking in Women

 

Altink, Sietske, Stolen Lives: Trading Women in Sex and Slavery, (London: Harrington Park Press, 1996).

 

Asia Watch and the Women’s Rights Project, A Modern Form of Slavery:  Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1993).

 

Lap-Chew, Lin, “Trafficking in Women: Strategies Within a Human Rights Framework” Working Paper (The Netherlands: Foundation Against Trafficking in Women [STV],1996).

 

Skrobanek, Siriporn, Nattaya Boonpakdee and Chutima Jantateroo, The Traffic in Women: Human Realities of the International Sex Trade (London: Zed Press, 1997).

 

Wijers, Marjan and Lin Lap-Chew, Trafficking in Women: Forced Labour and Slavery-Like Practices in Marriage, Domestic Labour, and Prostitution (Utrecht: Foundation Against Women, 1997).

 

 

Women in Muslim Societies

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz, Faith and Freedom, Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995).

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz and Halen Vaziri, Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies (Bethesda, MD: Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1996).

 

AlMunajjed, Mona, Women in Saudi Arabia Today, (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1997).

 

Dahl, Tove Stang, translated from the Norwegian by Ronald Walford, The Muslim Family: A Study of Women's Rights in Islam (Oslo and Boston: Scandinavian University Press, 1997).

 

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and John L. Esposito, eds., Islam, Gender, & Social Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

 

Human Rights Watch, Women’s Rights Project, “A Matter of Power:  State Control Over Women’s Virginity in Turkey,” A Human Rights Watch Report, Vol. 6, No. 7 (June 1994).

 

Mayer, Ann Elizabeth, Islam and Human rights: Tradition and Politics (Boulder, CO and San Francisco, CA: Westview Press; London: Pinter Press, 1991).

 

The New woman Research and Study Center. The Feminist Movement in the Arab World: Intervention and Studies from Four Countries (Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Tunisia), (Egypt: the New Woman Research and Study Center, 1996).

 

Shaheed, Farida, "On Laws, Customs and Stereotyping,"  Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Dossier No. 11/12/13, May 1993.

 

Shaheed, Farida, "The Experience in Pakistan," in Davies, M., ed., Women and  Violence (London: Zed Books, 1994).

 

Tekeli, ‘Sirin, Women in Modern Turkish Society:  A Reader (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1995).

 

Women Living under Muslim Laws, "Women Laws Initiatives in the Muslim World," Discussions from the international meeting, “Towards Beijing: Women, Law and Status in the Muslim World,”  Women Living under Muslim Laws, Lahore, Pakistan, December 11-15 (1994).

 

 

DATA ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN

 

Human Rights Watch, Women’s Rights Project, The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Women’s Human Rights (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1995).

 

Neft, Naomi and Ann D. Levine, Where Women Stand: An International Report on the Status of Women in over 140 Countries, 1997-1998, 1st ed., (New York: Random House, 1997).

 

Seager, Joni and Ann Olson, Women in the World Atlas (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986).

 

Sivard, Ruth L., Women:  A World Survey (Washington, D.C.: World Priorities, 1995).

 

United Nations, The World's Women 1995: Trends and Statistics, (UN.DOC.ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/12), (New York: United Nations, 1995).

 

 

WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

 

General UN Human Rights Information

                http://www.un.org

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Cetnre for Human Rights in Geneva

                http://www.unhcr.ch

 

International Human Rights Instruments - Women’s Human Rights

                http://www.umn.edu/instree/au.oe.htm

 

Internet Resources for Women’s Legal and Public Policy

                http://asa.ugl.lib.umich.edu/chdocs/womenpolidy/womenlawpolicy.html

 

United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

                http://www.undp.org/fwcw/csw.htm

 

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

                http://www.un.org/DPCSD/daw/cedaw.htm

 

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women

                http://www.un.org/DPCSD/daw/

 

Women’s Human Rights

                http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/

 

Women’sNet@igc

                http://www.igc.apc.org/womensnet/

 

Women’s Resources on the Web

                http://www.women-online.com/women/

 

 

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