COMMONWEALTH LAW BULLETIN

This note explores how the movement for women's rights embraces all the various categories of human rights and are applicable to women in societies everywhere in the world. The author concludes that law alone cannot reverse the traditional subordination of women because it involves a dialectical relationship with politics, economics, and culture.

The Balliol Judicial Colloquium is the fifth in a series beginning with the Bangalore Colloqium in 1988 on the domestic application of international human rights principles. This volume of the Commonwealth Law Bulletin contains the Balliol statement of 1992 and a selection of papers from the colloquium. Of particular interests to the topic of domestic implementation are: R.