* Includes CD-ROM Based on adult education principles, Step by Step Facilitator's Guide provides a guide for creating a comprehensive workshop on women's human rights covering introductions and objectives, concepts and history, gender and human rights, enforcement, fact-finding and advocacy. Each training module includes clear and specific learning objectives, content and process outlines, suggested activities, notes and tips for the facilitator, as well as supporting materials and useful handouts.

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The Strategy Workbook explores the role of law and its effect on women, and presents a conceptual approach to identifying and analyzing the major rights issues facing women in the world today. It presents a step by step process for planning and evaluating a women’s human rights advocacy strategy that covers issues involved in choosing the problem, analyzing the problem, defining outcomes, designing the strategy, writing the plan and assessing the effort.This Strategy Workbook is intended for use by individuals, groups and coalitions in planning for advocacy. The Strategy Workbook supplements the material in Women’s Human Rights Step by Step, helping advocates and activists deepen understanding of key concepts involved in human rights advocacy by working with analytical tools, a series of definitions and a set of steps for integrating concepts into concrete action strategies.

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.

Violence affects the lives of millions of women world-wide, in all socio-economic and educational classes. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers, impeding the right of women to participate fully in society. Violence against women takes a dismaying variety of forms from domestic abuse and rate to child marriages and female circumcision. All are violations of the most fundamental human rights. Raising awareness of the issue of violence against women and educating boys and men to view women as valuable partners in life, in the development of a society and in the attainment of peace are just as important as taking legal steps to protect women s human rights.

This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.