Lessons about autonomy and integration from international human rights, law journals, and the world of golf

By way of background, I should explain that within the United Nations (UN) system, there are instruments and mechanisms directed at promoting and protecting human rights such as the Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Committee, and there are separate instruments and mechanisms intended to...

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Veröffentlicht in:Columbia journal of gender and law 2003-09, Vol.12 (3), p.565
1. Verfasser: Bruch, Elizabeth M
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Zusammenfassung:By way of background, I should explain that within the United Nations (UN) system, there are instruments and mechanisms directed at promoting and protecting human rights such as the Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Committee, and there are separate instruments and mechanisms intended to address women's issues such as the Commission on the Status of Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW Committee").(8) Feminists have increasingly criticized the international system for this bifurcated approach to human rights and women's rights, raising the call prominently at the 1995 Beijing Conference and elsewhere that "women's rights are human rights."(9) The criticism is directed not just at the purported substantive split or division of subject matter, but also at the practical realities involved. Typically, the "mainstream" human rights mechanisms have greater prestige, larger and predominantly male membership, generate more attention to their findings, and have better working conditions and longer working sessions than the women's rights mechanisms.(10) (11) See, e.g., Charlotte Bunch, Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights, 12 Hum. Rts. Q. 486, 487 (1990) ("only recently have significant challenges been made to a vision of human rights which excludes much of women's experiences"); [Hilary Charlesworth], What are "Women's International Human Rights?", in Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives 58, 59 (Rebecca J. Cook ed., 1994) (noting that the developments in human rights "are built on typically male life experiences and in their current form do not respond to the most pressing risks women face"); see also Preface, 1 Hastings Women's L.J. (1989) (the female law student faces an additional burden and "must recognize the fact that she is entering a male dominated profession"); Shawn Marie Boyne et al., Beginnings, 1 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud. 1 (1992) (describing the struggles and frustrations of their law school experiences that led to the creation of the journal). (19) The Women's Rights Law Reporter, published at Rutgers University School of Law starting in 1972, was apparently the first women's law journal. Women's Rights Law Reporter, About the Reporter, http://newark.rutgers.edu/~wrlr/ (last visited Apr. 2, 2003). It was followed in 1978 by the Harvard Women's Law Journal. Harvard Women's Law Journal, http://www.law.harvard.edu/studorgs/woman_law_jo
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