Women's Rights in Relation to Human Rights: A Lawyer's Perspective

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. It is therefore intrinsically linked to the development debate and may very well be the decisive factor not only in achieving a radical transformation in the role of the sexes but in altering the global inequities of the development crisis which now faces the world community.