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)
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