Description
This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Backgrounds, Regional Reports, Gendered Law, 窶弃ublic窶� and 窶弃rivate窶�, Cultural Difference, Violence and Health, Development and the Socio-Economy, The Persecuted, The Voiceless, Conclusion, Contributors, Index
