Order of Categories
Women's Rights are Human Rights
Violence Against Women - General
Feminist Thinking
Democracy and Governance
Trafficking
Domestic Violence
FGM
Lesbians
Religion/Fundamentalisms - general
Women refugees
Econ., Soc. & Cultural Rights
Reproductive health and rights
Anthropology and Human Rights
Women's Human Rights in:
The Americas
Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
UN agencies and documents
1. Women's Rights are Human Rights 2.
Afkhami, Mahnaz, Ann Eisenberg and Haleh Vaziri. Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women. 2001, Women's Learning Partnership. Bethesda MD
Amnesty International. Women in the Front Line. 1991
----Rape and Sexual Abuse: Torture and Ill-treatment of Women in Detention. 1993
----It's About Time! Human Rights are Women's Right. Amnesty International Publication. London. 1995
----Respect, protect, fulfill women's human rights: government accountability for abuses by non-state actors. 2000
Askin, Kelly and Dorean Koenig eds Women's International Human Rights: A Reference Guide Transnational Publishers, 1999
Bobo,Kim, Jackie Kendal, Steve Max. Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s. Midwest Academy. Seven Locks Press. VA 1991
Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory. Columbia University Press. 1995.
Bunch, Charlotte. "Women's Rights as Human Rights: Towards a Re-Vision of Human Rights" Human Rights Quarterly (HRQ) Vol 12, #4, 1990
Byrnes, Andrew "The Other Human Rights Treaty Body: The Work of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women" Yale J.Int'l Law 14 (1989)
"Women, Feminism and International Human Rights Law: Methodological Myopia, Fundamental Flaws or Meaningful Marginalisation?" unpublished ms
Bunch, Charlotte and Niamh Reilly. Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights. Center for Women's Global Leadership. (see above)
Campbell, S. "International Law and Human Rights - the Case of Women's Rights" IN Human Rights: From Rhetoric to Reality. 1986
Charlesworth, Hilary, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright. "Feminist Approaches to International Law" Am.J.Int'l Law 85 (1991)
----"Transforming the Gender of International Law". Dr.Hilary Charlesworth, Law Faculty. University of Melbourne. Australia. Panel preceding discussion on Item 94; Advancement of Women. 3rd Committee of the 47th Session of the General Assembly. October 1992
Colliver, Sandra "UN machinieries on Women's Rights:How Might They Better Help Women Whose Rights are Being Violated?" IN Lutz, E, Hannum, H and Burke, K (eds) .New Directions in Human Rights. U of Penna.Press. 19??
Cook, Rebecca.
Human Rights of Women:National and International Perspectives,
Cook, R. (ed). U Of Penna Press. 1994.
"International Human Rights Law" Vanderbilt Journal Transnational Law. 1993
----"The International Right to Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex: A Bibliography" Yale Journal of International Law, Vol 14, #1. 1989
----(ed) 1991 Third World Legal Studies. "Realising the Rights of Women in Development Processes: Women's Legal Entitlements to Agricultural Development and Financial Assistance. International Third World Legal Studies Association.
D'Sa, R. "Women's Rights in Relation to Human Rights: A Lawyer's Perspective" Commonwealth Law Bulletin. 1987
Eisler, Riane "Human Rights: Toward an Integrated Theory for Action" HRQ. August 1987
Elder, B "The Rights of Women: Their Status in International Law, Crime and Social Justice. 1986
Evatt, Elizabeth "Eliminating Discrimination Against Women: The Impact of the UN Convention" Melbourne University Review. 1991
Fisher, Julie, The Road from Rio: Sustainable Development and the Non-Governmental Movement in the Third World. Praeger, Westport CT, 1993
Fraser, A. "Women in International Law" Harvard Women's Law Journal 1988
Galey, Margaret "International enforcement of women's rights particularly through political organs and agencies of the United Nations" Human Rights Quarterly. November 1984.
Gibson, John. International "Human Rights: Progression of Sources..." Suffolk Transnational Law Journal. 1990
Gilliam, Angela "Women's Equality and National Liberation" in Third World Women and the Politics of International Feminism. 1991
Hevener, N "An Analysis of Gender Based Treaty Law" Human Rights Quarterly 1986
Holmes, H. "A Feminist Analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" Beyond Domination: New Persepctives on Women and Philosophy. 1983
Howland, Courtney W. Ed. Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women. St Martin's Press 1999
International Human Rights Law Group, Women's Project. Token Gestures: Women's Human Rights and UN Reporting. 1993
Landsberg-Lewis, Ilana (ed.) Bringing Equality Home: Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. UNIFEM (UN Development Fund for Women), 1998\
Kerr, Joanna (ed) Ours by Right Women's Rights as Human Rights. 1993 Zed Press together with North-South Institute.First Ave Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
Meillon, Cynthia and Charlotte Bunch (eds) Holding on to the Promise: Women's Human Rights and the Beijing +5 Review, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University. Women Ink., 2001
Meron, Theodor "Women's Equality and Freedom of Religion" Human Rights Law-Making in the United Nations. Oxford:Clarendon Press. 1986.
Mertus,Julie, Nancy Flowers, Mallika Dutt. Local Action, Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls. UNIFEM and the Center for Women's Global Leadership. 1999
Morsink, Johannes. "Women's Rights in the Universal Declaration" Human Rights Quarterly. 1991
Pollis, A. & Schwab (eds) Human Rights:Cultural and Ideological Perspectives. 1979
Schuler, Margaret A. Claiming our Place: Working the Human Rights System to Women's Advantage. Institute for Women, Law and Development. Washington, DC. 1993
Schuler, Margaret A. Empowerment and the Law: Strategies of Third World Women. OEF International. Washington, DC. 1986
Schuler, Margaret. From Basic Needs to Basic Rights. Women Law and Development International, Washington, DC 1995
Sheldon, D. "Improving the Status of Women through International Law" Whittier Law Review. 1987
Singer, Michael. The Future of International Human Rights IRLC Occasional papers, Second Series, Number 2, 1997
Tahzib, Bahiyyih G. "Freedom of Religion or Belief: Ensuring Effective International Legal Protection" IN International Studies in Human Rights, Volume 44, Netherlands. 1995
Thomas DQ. In search of solutions: women's police stations in Brazil. In: Davies M. (ed.) Women and violence: realities and responses worldwide. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd., 1994. pp.32-43.
Tomasevski, Katarina. Women and Human Rights. Zed Books Ltd. London, 1993.
Weiner, Merle "Fundamental misconceptions about fundmental rights: the changing nature of women's rights in the EEC and their application in the United Kingdom" Harvard International Law Journal. Spring 1990.
Williams, Suzanne with Janet Seed and Adelina Mwau. The Oxfam Gender Training Manual. 1994 Oxfam Publishing, Oxford UK
Women's Human Rights Step by Step. (1998) Women in Law and Development, DC, with Human Rights Watch, NY.
Wolper, Andrea and Julie Peters, eds. Women's Rights, Human Rights. Routledge, NY 1994
Women's Human Rights, Step by Step. A practical guide to using international human rights law and mechanisms to defend women's human rights. Women, Law and Development International AND Human Rights Watch, Women's Rights Project.WLDI, Washington, DC 1997
Violence Against Women: General
Bunch,Charlotte and Roxanna Carrillo. Gender Violence: A Development and Human Rights Issue. Center for Women's Global Leadership. Douglass College, Rutgers. State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. 1991
Center for Women's Global Leadership. Gender Violence and Women's Human Rights in Africa. 1994. Douglass College (see above)
Center for Women's Global Leadership. 1991 Women's Leadership Institute Report: Women, Violence and Human Rights. Douglass College. Rutgers. (see above)
Colorado Domestic Violence Coalition Domestic Violence: The Legal Response. (manual for legal community) October 1994 Obtain from CDVC, PO Box 18902, Denver CO 80218
Ford Foundation. Violence against Women: A Global Problem. NY. 1992. Ford Foundation
Fortrell, Dierdre. The Girl Child under International Law. Dartmouth. 1999
Hampton, R.L. Black Family Violence: Current Research & Theory. Lexington Books. 1991
----Family Violence. Sage Publications. 1993
Heise, Lori. "Crimes of Gender" in World Watch. March/April 1989
International League for Human Rights. Combatting Violence Against Women. NY,NY 1994.
Itzin, Catherine Pornography: Woman, Violence and Civil Liberties. NY 1993
Krill, Francoise "The Protection of Women in International Humanitarian Law"
Litsky, Matthew. "Explaining the Legal System's Inadequate Response to the abuse of Women: A Lack of Coordination" New York Law School Journal of Human Rights Fall, 1990.
Lockhart, Letti L. "Spousal Violence: A Cross-Racial Perspective" IN R.L.Hampton (ed) Black Family Violence: Current Research and Theory. Lexington Books. 1991
Newberger & R.Bourne (eds) Clinical & Research Perspective on Family Violence. PSG Publishing Co. 1985.
Nordstrom, Carolyn Girls and Warzones: Troubling Questions ISBN 91 87748 37-1 (Life & Peace Institute, PO Box 1520, SE 751, Uppsala, Sweden $8.50
Stiglmayer, Alexandra (ed). Mass Rape: The War against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. U of Nebraska,Lincoln and London. 1994
Schuler, Margaret (ed). Freedom From Violence: Strategies to End Violence Against Women. 1992
Sullivan, Karen "Providing Culturally Competent Services to Hispanic-American Bettered Women" in Free to be Safe. Oklahoma Coalition on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. August 1993
Thomas, Dorothy Q and Regan Ralph. "Rape in War: Challenging the Tradition of Impunity", SAIS Review, Winter/Spring 1994.
Tetreault, Mary Ann "Justice for All:Wartime Rape and women's Human Rights" in Global Governance, Vol.3, May-Aug.1997.
Williams, Lynora "Violence against Black women in the United States" in Black Scholar. January/February 1981.
Feminist thinking
Chinkin, Christine, Hilary Charlesworth and Shelley Wright. Feminist Approach to International Law, 85 American Journal of International Law 613 (1991)
----and Hilary Charlesworth "Gender of Jus Cogens" 15 Human Rights Quarterly 63 (1993)
Mohanty, Russo and Torres. (eds) Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.
Moore, Henrietta. Feminism and Anthropology. 1989
Narayan, Uma. 1997. Dislocating Cultures; Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism. Routeledge, NY and London.
Governance and Democracy
Ashworth, Georgina. Equal Rule? Change. 106 Hatton Square, 16-16A Baldwins Gardens, London EC1N 7RJ IL
Trafficking in Women
Barry, Kathleen, Charlotte Bunch and Shirley Castely (eds) International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery. NY. International Women's Tribune Center. 1984
A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand. Human Rights Watch, Women's Project Report. 1994.
Holden, Peter, Jurgent Horlemann and Goerg Friedrich Pfafflin. Tourist Prostitution Development Documentation. Ecumenical Coalition of Third World Tourism. 1983
UN - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Workshop of Experts on Prevention and Rehabilitation Schemes for Young Women in Prostitution and Related Occupations. Bangkok. 1985
UN - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Motion of Community Awareness: The Prevention of Prostitution. Lampang, Thailand. 1991.
Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue
Edwards, Susan Policing "Domestic" Violence: Women, the Law and the State. 1989
Hanmer, Jalna. Women, Policing and Male Violence: International Perspectives. NY 1989
Thomas, Dorothy and Michele Beaseley "Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue" Human Rights Quarterly. 1993
Manavi - Invisible Terms: Domestic Violence in the Asian Indian context (A Handbook for Intervention) Manavi, $25.00 PO Box 614, Bloomfield NJ 07003
Thomas, Dorothy, "about Brazilian police stations - article and video
Female Genital Mutilation
Abdel Halim, Asma. "Rituals and Angels". In From Basic Needs to Basic Rights: Women's claim to Human Rights. Women Law and Development International, Washington, DC 1995
AWAKEN Magazine. Equality Now, 226 West 58th St, #4, NY NY 10019
Badran, Margo. Feminists, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Princeton University Press. 1996
Battlefields of Women's Bodies: The Political Controversy over FGM in Egypt. RAINBO, NY, 1995
Bouleware-Miller, Kay. "Female Circumcision: Challenges to the Practice as a Human Rights Violation" Harvard Women's Law Journal. 1985
Davis, Angela. "Women in Egypt: A Personal View" Women, Cultural and Politics
Dorkenu Efua. Female Genital Mutilation: Proposals for Change Minority Rights Groups. 1982
El Saadawi, Nawal. Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. Zed Books, London, 1980
Female Genital Mutilation: A Call for Global Action, 2nd Ed. RAINBO, NY, 1995
Gunning, Isabelle. Diversity Issues in Mediation: Controlling Negative cultural Myths. 1995. Journal of Dispute Resolution
Arrogant Perception, World-Travelling and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries, 23 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 189, 1992
Greunbaum, Ellen "The Movement against Clitorodectomy and Infibulation in the Sudan" Medical Anthropology Newsletter. February 1982
Hosken, Fran. Stop Female Genital Mutilation: Women Speak; Facts and Actions. WIN NEWS, Lexington, MA. 1995
Second Inter-agency Working Group on FGM Report - 1995. Report from a meeting of international agencies, donors and representatives of African organizations on current research, programs, funding and future strategies relation to the eradication of FGM, RAINBO, NY, 1996
Toubia,Nahid "Social and Political Implications of Female Circumcision" IN Elizabeth Fernea Women and the Family in the Middle East 1985.
------------ & Donna Sullivan Female Genital Mutilation: A Call To Action. The Population Council. 1992
Slack, Allison "Female Circumcision: A Critical Appraisal" Human Rights Quarterly Vol 10,#4, 1988.
Lesbian (and in general, gay) Human Rights Issues
Breaking the Silence: Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation AIUSA, February 1994
Ramos, Juanita. Ed. Companeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology)
Roof, Judith. A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory. Columbia University Press. 1995
Lillian Faderman and Larry Gross, eds. Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies. Columbia University Press. A series.
Women's Human Rights and religion
Hawley, John Stratton. Fundamentalism and Gender (ed) Oxford Univ. Press, 1994
Howland, Courtney. The Challenge of Religious Fundamentalism to the Liberty and Equality Rights of Women 35 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 1997
Peach, Lucinda Joy. From Religious Description to Legal Prescription: The status of Women as Fetal Containers in the Law. 10 Journal of Law and Religion, 199304
Rose, Susan D., Steve Brouwer and Paul Gifford. Exporting the American Gospal: Global Christian Fundamentalism. Routledge, 1996
----Christian Fundamentalism and Education in the U.S. IN The Fundamentalism Project, Fundamentalisms and society. Martin Marty & Scott Appleby eds., Univ. of Chicago Press 1993
Tahzib-Lie, Bahiyyih. Freedom of Religion or Belief: Ensuring Effective International Legal Protection. Martinus Nijhoff, Kluwer Law International 1995
Yuval-Davis, Nira Refusing Holy Orders Women and Fundamentalism in the UK, Virago 1992.
---- Gender and Nation. Sage Pulications 1997
----Woman - Nation - State. Macmillan, 1989
Protecting Women Refugees
Clark, Lance "Internal Refugees - The Hidden Half" World Refugee Survey: 1988
Forbes-Martin, Susan Refugee Women 1991. London. Zed Books.
Johnsson, Anders "The International Protection of Women Refugees: A Summary of Principle Problems and Issues" International Journal of Refugee Law. 1989
Kelly, Ninette Working with Refguee Women: A Practical Guide. Geneva: International NGO Working Group on REfugee Women. 1989
Mayotte, Judy Disposable People? The Plight of Refugees. NY, Orbis Books. 1992
Mulligan, Marueen. "Obtaining Political asylum: Classifying Rape as a well founded Fear of Persecution on Account of Political Opinion" Boston College Third World Law Journal. 1990.
Nunez, Kyra. Women Speak Out in Central America. Refugees. May 1992
Siemens, Maria "Protection of Refugee Women" Refugees. December 1992.
UNIFEM "Strategy on Refugees" Meeting the Needs of the Majority - Women" NY. 1991
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Adepoju, Aderanti & Christine Oppong (eds). Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Heinemann for International Labour Office, Geneva. 1994
Basirika, Edith. National Conference on Socio-economic and political effects of structural adjustment in Uganda, May/June 1993. Kampala: Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Beneria, Lourdes & Gita Sen. 1986. "Accumulation, reproduction and women's role in economic development: Boserup Revisited". In Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor. Leacock and Safa (eds)
Carillo, Roxanna. Battered Dreams: Violence Against Women as an Obstacle to Development. UNIFEM. 1992
Coates, Ken Ed. Peace Register 1993: Drawing the Peace Dividend. 1993
Cooke, R. "Human Rights and Development: Are Women Still Separate and Unequal?" In Proceedings of the 1986 Conference on International Law and Development of the CAnadian Council on International Law. 1987
----"Reducing Maternal Mortality: A Priority for Human Rights Law" in Legal Issues in Human Reproduction. 1989
----and Haws, J. "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Women: Opportunities for Family Planning Providers," in International Family Planning Perspective. 1983
Enloe, Cynthia Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of Intenrational Politics. 1989
Feldman, Rayah. Women for a Change
Frenette, Jocelyne "Equal Pay: An Issue for Traditionally Female Professions" Canadian Home Economic Journal. Spring 1986
Gwartney-Gibbs, Pataricia "Workplace Dispute Resolution and Gender Inequality in Negotiation Journal. April 1991.
ISIS Women's World, Special Issue on Debt Crisis, #17, March 1988
Khotari and Sethi (eds) Rethinking Human Rights. Lokayan.
Leacock, Eleanor and Helen Safa (eds) (1986) Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor.
Rosen, Sumner "Protecting labor rights in market economies" Human Rights Quarterly August 1992.
Sen, Gita & Caren Grown. "Development crises and alternative visions" Third World Women Publications
Schuler, Margaret (1995) From Basic Needs to Basic Rights. Women in Law and Development. Washington DC
UNIFEM 1992. "Women, Men and Economics:The Gender-Differentiated Impact of Macro-Economics with special reference to Asia and Pacific"
Unequal Burdens: Economic Crises, persistent poverty and women's work. Westview Press. Boulder 1992
Waring, Marilyn If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics. Harper and Row. 1991
WEDO (Women's Economic and Development Organization). A Gender Agenda for the World Trade Organization. 2000
World Debt and the Human Condition (HJ 8046 .W67 1993) Studies in Human Rights #14. NY:Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993
Reproductive health and rights
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, NY and the Open Forum on Reproductive Health and Rights, Chile. Women Behind Bars: Chile's Abortion Laws - A Human Rights Analysis. NY NY, 1998
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, NY, and CLADEM Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights, Peru. Silence and Complicity: Violence Against Women in Peruvian Public health Facilities. 1999
Freedman, Lynn. Article in Colliver, Sandra ed. The Rights to Know: Human Rights and Acess to Reproductive Health Information. Article 19 publication. U of PA Press, 1995
----"Human Rights and the Politics of Risk and Blame: Lessons from the International Reproductive Health Movement". Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 52(4) 1997
----"The Challenge of Fundamentalisms". Reproductive Health Matters 8:55-69, 1996
----"Reflections on Emerging Frameworks of Health and Human Rights". in Health and Human Rights 1(4) 1995
Mann, Jonathan, Sofia Gruskin, M.Grodin and George Annas. (1999) Health and Human Rights Reader. Routledge
Patchesky, Rosalind and Karen Judd (eds) (1998) Negotiating Reproductive Rights. Zed Books
Zavos, Michele "Women in the shadow of AIDS:are they the forgotten victims" Human Rights Quarterly 1992
Health and Human Rights Journal. 1998 Special Issue Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. Harvard School of Public Health
Hossain, Sara and Sajeda Amin. Women's Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Fundamentalism: A view from Bangladesh. 44 American University Law Review 1995
Anthropology and Human Rights
Moore, Henrietta. Feminism and Anthropology. Univ. of MN Press. 1988
Morgen, Sandra (ed) Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching. Amer. Anthropol.Assoc. 1989
Renteln, Allison Dundes. International Human Rights: Universalism vs Relativism. 1990
Reiter, Rayna Rapp (ed) Towards an Anthropology of Women 1975
Schirmer, Jennifer. Review of Rentelm, Allison D. (see above). Human Rights Quarterly 1991 Vol 13 #1
----"Cultural Relativism and the Search for Human Rights. American Anthropologist 1990(1): 56-72
Anthropology and Human Rights. Cultural Survival Quarterly
Human Rights in Perspective (Stavenhagen article)
Human Rights in a Pluralistic World JC 571 .H769517 1990
UN and other international agency documents
International Labor Organization office
Equal Opportunity and Equal Treatment for Men and Women in Employment. Geneva: ILO 1988
Women Workers: Selected ILO Documents. Geneva, 1988
Equality in Employment and Occupation: General Survey.on the applicaiton of Conventions... Geneva, 1988
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, part of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva - 10 reports on the UN Commission on Human Rights website
UNIFEM. Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, ed. Bringing Equality Home:Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. 1998
UNIFEM. Donna Sullivan Integration of Women's Human Rights into the work of the Special Rapporteurs
UNIFEM. Report of the Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Guidelines for the Integrationof Gender Perspectives into UN Human Rights Activities and Pogrammes.
Bunche, Charlotte and Niamh Reilly. Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights UNIFEM and Center for Women's Global Leadership. 1994
United Nations. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China. Platform for Action and Beijing Declaration. 1995
UNHCR Guidelines on the protection of Refugee Women. Geneva, 1991
----Report on the Situation of Women and Children in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Geneva. 1993
----Report of the Permanent Working Group on the Situation of Women Geneva, 1990
World Health Organization Report "Female Circumcision" IN International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 73:149 (1992)
Women's Human Rights in Africa
Abdel Halim, Asma Challenges to the Application of International Women's Human Rights in the Sudan IN Rebecca Cook Ed, Human Rights of Women 1994
Amnesty International. Women in Kenya - Repression and Resistance. AI, London, 1995
Armstrong, A. Law, Health and the Women's Convention in Southern Africa. International Women's Rights Action Watch, 1987.
Human Rights Watch. Women's Rights Project. Violence Against Women in South Africa: State Response to Domestic Violence and Rape. 1995
Weinstein, Human Rights and Development in Africa:/dilemmas and Options 112 Deadalus Human Rights Issue. 175, Fall 1983
Welch, Claude "Human Rights and African Women: A Comparison of Protection under Two Major Treaties" HRQ #15, 1993
----"Africa and Human Rights in the 1990's" Africa Today 1992
Women's Human Rights in the Americas
Amnesty International. Caught Between Two Fires: Human Rights Violations in Peru. London 1988
----Overcoming Fear - human rights violations against women in Mexico. AI. London, 1995
----Women in Colombia. AI. London, 1995
----Women in Peru - women's rights in jeopardy. AI. London, 1995
----1999. Not Part of My Sentence: Human Rights Violations against Women in US Prisons and Jails.
Beckerman, Adele. "Women in Prison: The Conflict Between Confinement and Parental Rights" Social Justice. Fall 1991
Bolles, Lyn "IMF Destabilization: The Impact on Working Class Jamaican Women" TransAfrica Forum, Vol 2, #1, Summer. 1983
Buenster, Ximena "Women and Torture in Latin America" IN Women and Change in Latin America.June Nash and Helen Safa (eds) Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc. 19
Copelon, Rhonda, Barbara Babcock, Ann Freedman, Susan Deller Ross, Wendy Webster Williams,
Deborah Rhode, Nadine Taub. Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice & Theory, Little,Brown & Co, NY 2nd Ed. 1996
Crenshaw, Kimberle, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas Eds. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement. The New Press. NY.1995
Diaz-Cotto, Juanita Gender, Ethnicity and the State: Latina and latino Prison Politics. 1996
Gornick, Vivian and Barbara Moran. Women in Sexist Society:Studies in Power and Powerlessness. 1971
Hardley, S Sex and Class in Latin America 1980
Hern, Warren "Proxemics: the application of theory to conflict arising from anti abortion demonstrations in Population and Environment Summer 1991
Howes, Ruth and Michael Stevenson. Women and the Use of Military Force. 1993
Human Rights Watch, Women's Project. Untold Terror: Violence Against Women in Peru's Armed Conflict. 1992
----Criminal Injustice:Violence Against Women in Brazil. 1991
Hyman, Paula. Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women. U of WA Press 1995
Hyman, Paula and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. 1997
Lerner, Gerda (ed) Black Women in White America
Licktman, Judith and Holly Fechner. "Almost there: For Women, the Civil Rights Act of 1992 is a move in the rights direction" Human Rights Quarterly. Summer 1992
Medina, C "Women's Rights as Human Rights: Latin American Countries and the OAS" in Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s, Selected papers. Amsterdam:John Benjamins Publishing Co. 1985.
Miller, Dorothy. "Children's policy and women's policy: congruence or conflict?" Social Work July/August 1987.
Owens, Barbara. In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison (about Chowchilla) Swan Press, 1998
Ross, Susan Deller. The Rights of Women, with Pinzler, Ellis & Moss. S.IL Univ.Press, third edition, 1993.
Rothenberg Paula S. Race, Class & Gender in the United States. St.Martin's Press. NY 1992
Thomas, Suzie and Sterin Nance (eds) Criminality, Imprisonment and women's rights in the 1990s. In Social Justice. Summer 1990
Women's Human Rights in Asia
Amnesty International. Pakistan: Killings of Women in the Name of Honor. 1999
Ahmed, Ishtiaq The Concept of an Islamic State in Pakistan: An analysis of ideological controversies. Vanguard Books, Ltd (Pakistan) 1991
Ashrafi, Talat Ara. Muslim Women in Changing Perspective. Commonwealth Publishers (New Delhi). 1992
Amnesty International, Women in Afghanistan: A Human Rights Catastrophe. AI, London, 1995
----, Afghanistan: Human Rights Violations in the Name of Religion. AI, London, 1996
----, Women in China: Imprisoned and abused for dissent. AI, London. 1995
----, Women in Indonesia and East Timor - Standing Against Repression. AI, London, 1995
----, Women in Pakistan: Disadvantaged and their rights denied. AI London, 1995
----, Pakistan: Violence Against Women in the Name of Honor. AI London. 1999
----, Children's Rights in South Asia. AI, London, 1998
Honig, Emily Personal Voice: Chinese Women in the 1980s. 1988
Hossain, Sara "Equality in the Home: Women's Rights and Personal Laws in South Asia" in Rebecca Cook ed Human Rights of Women 1994
Human Rights Watch, Women's Project. Double Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan. 1991
---- Asia Watch and Physicians for Human Rights. Rape in Kashmir: A Crime of War. May 1993
Kapur, Ratna Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in india. Sage Publications 1996
Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains: Interdisciplinary Essays on Women and Law in India
Secularisms last sigh? The Hindu Rights, the Courts and India's Struggle For Democracy 38 Harvard International Law Journal 1997
Kapur, Ratna and Brenda Cossman. Women and the Hindhu Right: A collection of Essays. Zed Press,1996
Rose, Kalima. Where Women are Leaders. Zed Press. 1994(?)
Satha-Anand, Suwanna. Conceps of Being Human in Asian Philosophies, 1990
----Looking to Buddhism to Turn Back Thai Prostitution in SE Asia IN The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Joanne Bauer & Daniel Bell, eds. Cambridge U.Press forthcoming 1998.
Thai Prostitution, Buddhism and 'New Rights' Issues in SE Asia. Forthcoming, 1998
----Shams, Dr.Samsuddin. Women, Law and Social Change. Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, 1991
Yu Quanyu "Subsistence: The Primary Human Right" Beijing Review Jan.6-12, 1992
Women Living Under Muslim Law. Montpellier 1996. Fatwas Against Women in Bangladesh.
Women's Human Rights in Europe
Amnesty International. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape and Sexual Abuse by Armed Forces. January 1993
Fottrell, Dierdre. Human Rights in the Irish Republic: Cases and Materials. 1999
Helsinki Watch Newsletter. "Hidden Victims: Women in Post-Communist Poland". (A Division of Human Rights Watch) NY 1992.
International Human Rights Law Group, Women's Project. "No Justice, No Peace:Accountability for Rape and gender-based violence in the former Yugoslavia" Washington, DC. 1993
Saghal, Gita. The Experience of Asian Women Organizing. IN Refusing Holdy Orders. co-edited with Nira Yuval-Davis. Virago, London, 1992.
Stiglmayer, Alexandra (ed.) Mass Rape: The War against Women in Bosnia-Hercegovina. U of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Sweeney Jane "Promoting human rights through regional organizations: women's rights in Eastern Europe particularly in Council of Europe and the European Community" Human Rights Quarterly. 1984.
Women's Human Rights in the Middle East/Islamic Societies
Amnesty International. Israel: Human Rights Violations against Women trafficked into the Israel Sex Industry. 2000
Afkhami, Mahnaz. Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World. Syracuse Univ. Press, 1996
Afkhami, Mahnaz and Haleh Vaziri. Claiming our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies, Sisterhood Is Global Institute 1995
----and Erika Friedl. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. Syracuse Univ. Press. 1997
----and Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Haleh Vaziri. Safe and Secure: Eliminating Violence against Women and girls in Muslim Societies. Sisterhood is Global Institute. MD 1998
Anwar, Ghazala. Muslim Feminist Discourses IN Feminist Theology in Different Contexts, Elisabeth Schussler Fioernza & M. Shawn Copeland eds. Orbis Books. London 1996
Amnesty International. Women in the Middle East. AI, London, 1995
An-Na'im, Abdullai "The Rights of Women and International Law in the Muslim Context" Whittier Law Review Vol.9, 1987
Atiya, Nayra Khulkaal: 5 Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories.
Azari, Farah. Ed. Women of Iran: The Conflict with Fundamentalist Islam. 1983.
Beck, Lois & Nikki Keddie, eds. Women in the Muslim World. Harvard U.Press, 1978
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