Source: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Edited by Bert B. Lockwood
Published: 2006 This special collection of ''Human Rights Quarterly'' articles brings together in a single volume nineteen of the most compelling articles written on women's human rights issues.
This reader focuses specifically on the challenges that women face and the efforts by individuals and organizations alike to ensure the protection of women under international law. The articles are organized into five sections that discuss the history and evolution of women's human rights, religion, violence, economic rights, and reproductive rights. The essays address such topics as the rights of Middle Eastern women, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.
For more information and to order please go to: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9066.html
Published in: AWID Resource Net Announcements, Association for Women's Rights in Development, 26 July 2006.