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The Personal is Political or Why Women’s Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism

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The Personal is Political or Why Women’s Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism
Author(s)Oloka Onyango, J.; Tamale, Sylvia
AbstractThe need to equate women’s rights with human rights, and vice versa, on an international level is clear in Africa. While human rights standards are supposedly applied by international organizations in aiding developing countries there, it is clear that such ‘standards’ have done nothing to better the lot of women in these societies. Providing the right to participate in development is not the same thing as ensuring human rights, because it does not take into account the rights of the most oppressed, the women.
IssueNo4
Pages691-731
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceHuman Rights Quarterly
VolumeNo17
PubDateNovember 1995
ISBN_ISSN0275-0392


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