Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies

Women's rights in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are surveyed in this article. The author uses human rights standards contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to rate the de jure and de facto status of women's rights in the areas of nondiscrimination and access to justice, autonomy, security, and freedom of the person, economic rights and equal opportunity, political rights and civic voice, and social and cultural rights.