Critical Evaluation of International Treaties and Conventions on Women's Human Right. A Perspective

The article describes the ample national policies and international conventions that exist to protect the "dignity of women". Kumar lists and details multiple international instruments aimed at the protection of women's rights, such as CEDAW, the Declaration of Elimination of Violence against Women, etc. However, due to the absence of proper strategic bodies to implement these provisions and women's unawareness of these policies and conventions, these policies and conventions are not enforced, resulting in the existing vulnerable situation of women in most areas of the world. Furthermore, international bodies such as the UN have failed to incorporate the female perspective into its machinery at a fundamental level, feeding into a patriarchal view of women's rights. She concludes by arguing that states need to give substance to the international and regional treaties and conventions to accord women the rights to which they are entitled.