Recent Tendency of Women Rights Violation in South Asia
Recent Tendency of Women Rights Violation in South Asia
Amity Saha
M.A.1st Year, South Asian Studies, UMISARC, Pondicherry University
Abstract: Chauvinism, discrimination, sexual harassment, rape and other crimes against women are problems faced severely by women in South Asia in recent days. These are the serious cases of violations of human rights. In this article several current incidents, where women rights and dignity as a human being are completely violated in south Asian countries are shown.
Introduction:
Gender equality is, first and foremost, a human right. Women are permitted to live in dignity and in freedom from want and from fear. Nevertheless intolerance against women and girls -including gender-based violence, economic discrimination, reproductive health inequities, and harmful traditional practices - remains the most omnipresent and regular form of disparity. Since the Second World War, human rights have emerged as a central tenet to international relations – characterized by some as ‘the most drastic development in the whole history of international law’. In an international regime, such as that of human rights, international actors accept certain norms and decision-making procedures to regulate an issue area, while accepting certain restrictions. The international human rights regime is now considered as the UN-centered regime, of which the most important statement of norms is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Numerous international and regional instruments have drawn attention to gender-related dimensions of human rights issues, the most important being the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), taken on in 1979. In 1993, 45 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, and eight years after CEDAW entered into force, the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna confirmed that women’s rights were human rights. That this statement was even necessary
Amity Saha
M.A.1st Year, South Asian Studies, UMISARC, Pondicherry University
Abstract: Chauvinism, discrimination, sexual harassment, rape and other crimes against women are problems faced severely by women in South Asia in recent days. These are the serious cases of violations of human rights. In this article several current incidents, where women rights and dignity as a human being are completely violated in south Asian countries are shown.
Introduction:
Gender equality is, first and foremost, a human right. Women are permitted to live in dignity and in freedom from want and from fear. Nevertheless intolerance against women and girls -including gender-based violence, economic discrimination, reproductive health inequities, and harmful traditional practices - remains the most omnipresent and regular form of disparity. Since the Second World War, human rights have emerged as a central tenet to international relations – characterized by some as ‘the most drastic development in the whole history of international law’. In an international regime, such as that of human rights, international actors accept certain norms and decision-making procedures to regulate an issue area, while accepting certain restrictions. The international human rights regime is now considered as the UN-centered regime, of which the most important statement of norms is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Numerous international and regional instruments have drawn attention to gender-related dimensions of human rights issues, the most important being the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), taken on in 1979. In 1993, 45 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, and eight years after CEDAW entered into force, the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna confirmed that women’s rights were human rights. That this statement was even necessary
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