Making Women Visible: Setting an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

This article provides a description of the “Women’s Rights as International Human Rights Symposium.” The symposium dealt with the extent of female invisibility in manners such as not being allowed political participation. Participants also discussed the presence of systematic discrimination and its endangering effects. Lastly, the symposium advocated several approaches to the problem of women’s rights as human rights. Women must unite and network together and since they are not a homogenous group, critiques of human rights must reflect their various backgrounds. Other important factors brought up during the symposium were the idea of cultural relativism and the importance of economics in applying human rights.