Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367622787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Rebecca Adami

Opis

This book presents the non-Western women delegates to the United Nations in 1945-1948 at the drafting of the UN Charter and the UDHR, and explores their arguments for women’s rights and for a more inclusive language than "the Rights of Man" in these founding documents of the United Nations.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Counter Narrative to Earlier Research  1. The San Francisco Conference – A Call to All Women  2. A Charter Signed by Women?  3. The United Nations 1946 – Will Women Have a Say?  4. The Commission on Human Rights – or the "Rights of Man"?  5. The Commission on the Status of Women – on Sisterhood  6. A Lack of Acknowledgement – "Men" Trumps "All Human Beings"  7. The Commission on Human Rights Pressured to Consider the Rights of Women  8. The Third Committee – Rights in the Private Realm  9. The Socialist Dissent – A Surprising Support for Women?  10. Is a Vote in the General Assembly a Vote for the People?.  Epilogue: On Female Representation in the United Nations

O autorze

Rebecca Adami is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University and Associate Researcher at SOAS University of London.