Van Leeuwen, Fleur

The United Nations and the Promotion and Protection of Women’s Human Rights : A Work in Progress

This article explores steps the United Nations has taken to promote and protect women’s enjoyment of human rights within the human rights framework since its inception. This article also investigates why these strategies have yet to lead to the desired outcome. The UN first granted women the same rights as men in 1945, then adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against women, then attempted to promote and protect women’s rights in its human rights framework.

A Woman' Right to Decide? The United Nations Human Rights Committee, Human Rights of Women, and Matters of Human Reproduction

The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action called upon the monitoring bodies of the international human rights treaties to include the human rights of women in their deliberations and findings. This article explores whether the Human Rights Committee sufficiently includes human rights related to the reproductive concerns of women in its work. The author argues that although the Human Rights Committee pays some attention to reproductive issues that affect women, it does not often acknowledge individual rights in this respect and as such does not fully promote and