Reference:
New York: Amnesty International U.S.A. 1995, 152 Pages
Annotation:
Amnesty International (AI) believes that governments are obliged not only to stop and prevent violations of women's human rights, but are also required to promote and protect those rights. AI campaigns for governments to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (the Women's Convention) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). This publication discusses women and war, women activists, women at risk, and suggests fifteen steps to protect women's human rights. AI urges governments who are seriously committed to ending discrimination and violence against women (in both the private and public spheres) to adopt and fund comprehensive policies for widespread education and the raising of global consciousness on all women's human rights issues. When governments knowingly tolerate abuses such as domestic violence, female genital mutilation or trafficking in sexual slaves the gap between what is public and what is private narrows.