This report argues that, until recently, women’s experiences were not adequately addressed by the human rights framework. This report aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the ways in which women experience discrimination globally in order to aid the United Nations in developing strategies to eliminate such discrimination. The report recognizes the need to take intersecting forces of discrimination that certain women face based on age, ethnicity, and other grounds into account when developing such strategies. The report elaborates on key provisions in international human rights law in order to explain concepts that are particularly relevant for understanding women’s human rights. The report examines the work of United Nations human rights mechanisms together with selected areas of women’s human rights: public and political life, sexual and reproductive health and rights, the right to an adequate standard of living, violence against women, migration, conflict and crisis and access to justice.