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Chapter overview - women and girls

1 August 2007, 07:46PM

The rights of women and girls

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This chapter explores discrimination against women and girls and addresses political, cultural, social and economic dimensions to this issue. It includes a focus political and civil rights for women, and on women in the economy. It addresses an extreme form that discrimination can take: violence against women and girls, given how widespread it is and how much it has been ignored. The chapter explores how discrimination can be challenged and overcome.

The chapter features:

  • Introduction: attitude scale on current views and values about the rights of women and girls.
  • The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • Political and civil rights
  • Investigation: women in Islamic countries
  • Social and cultural rights
  • Girls and marriage
  • Economic rights
  • Womens role in the economy: case study of Bangladesh and South Asia
  • Investigation: gender and development
  • Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women campaign
  • Gender-based violence against women
  • Government aid: microfinance projects
  • Investigation: the Grameeen Bank
  • Amnesty International report on violence against women in Papua New Guinea
  • Human rights defender: Nang Charm Tong, Myanmar (Burma)