Synopsis

Millions of Women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of and attacks against, their fundamental rights for no other reason than that they are women. Abuses against women are relentless, systematic, and widely tolerated, if not explicity condoned. Violations and discrimination against women are global and social epidemic, not withstanding the very real progress of the international women. Human Rights movement in identifying, raising awareness about, and challenging impunity of women’s human rights violations, it is in this context the present volume concentrates to mitigate the suffering of women through human rights. Nineteen articles on violation against women and related matters have been selected and jolted down at one place in order to have a complete study and glance of this valuable reading material. These research articles have earlier been widely acclaimed in India and abroad due to their wide circulation and presentation at national and international forum.

It has been observed that women’s human rights are, through acknowledged by national and international governments but there is violation of human rights at very large scale. The United Nations sponsored women’s conferences, which took place in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, and Nairobi in 1985, were convened to evaluate the status of women and to formulate strategies for women’s advancement. In 1993, Vienna Conference on human rights, the 1994 Cairo Conference and the 1995, Beijing Women’s World Conference, recognized the need to build on these principles to assert women’s rights.