Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights: Where Next After Vienna?

• NCJ Number: 161909
• Journal: St. John's Law Review Volume: 69 Issue: 1-2 Dated: (Winter-Spring 1995) Pages: 171-178
• Author(s): C Bunch
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 8 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Conference Material
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

In anticipation of the 1993 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, the Center for Women's Global Leadership helped to form an international movement of women called the Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights.

Abstract

The objective was to bring gender-specific violations of women's human rights to the forefront of international human rights discourse. At the Vienna Conference, the Global Campaign made demands in two principal areas: (1) a petition called for the integration of women throughout the conference agenda; and (2) the Global Campaign demanded that the conference recognize gender-based violence against women as an international human rights abuse. The result was a Vienna Declaration on women's human rights. The Global Campaign indicated that countries need to share the responsibility for confronting women's human rights issues, particularly violence and discrimination against women, and that women must be integrated throughout human rights theory and practice. 22 footnotes