Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1945-1948? Which member states did these women represent, and in what ways did they push for a more inclusive language than "the rights of Man" in the texts? This book provides a gendered historical narrative of human rights from the San Francisco Conference in 1945 to the final vote of the UDHR in the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948. It highlights the contributions by Latin American feminist delegates, and the prominent non-Western female representatives from new member states of the UN.
Keywords
Progressive Women’s Movements;Latin American Feminist;Central Hall Westminster;Palais De Chaillot;Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic;Colonial Administrations;Chinese Youth Party;Bombay Legislative Council;Flushing Meadows Park;UDHR State;USSR Proposal;People’s Political Council;CEDAW;Male Delegates;Non-Self Governing Territories;Hindu Code Bill;Trygve Lie;Uniform Civil Code;Female Delegates;Human Rights;India Women’s Conference;Olympe De Gouges;Women Delegates;Inter-American CommissionDOI
10.4324/9780429437939ISBN
9781138345355, 9780429795527, 9780429437939, 9780429795510, 9780367622787, 9780429795534Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://0-taylorandfrancis-com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/Publication date and place
2019Grantor
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RoutledgeSeries
Routledge Research in Gender and History,Classification
Social and cultural history