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Human Rights Debate

Women's Rights

Child Marriage or Child Rape?

Aida Qajar

April 2, 2018

State Discriminatory Family Law and Customary Abuses

Julie Mertus

March 8, 2011

Cultural Particularism as a Bar to Women's Rights: Reflections on the Middle Eastern Experience

Ann Elizabeth Mayer

March 8, 2011

The Politics of Gender and Culture in International Human Rights Discourse

Arati Rao

March 8, 2011

The Human Rights of Women in the Familty: Issues and Recommendations for Implementation of the Women's Convention

Marsha A. Freeman

March 8, 2011

Culture, Tradition and Politics Instrumentalized against women’s Human Rights

Ann Elizabeth Mayer/Julie Mertus/Marsha Freeman/Arati Rao

March 8, 2011

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Documenting Women Rights Violations by Non-State Agents

Jan Bauer and Anissa Hélie

January 1, 2006

Gender Discrimination and Human Rights in Iran

Ann Elizabeth Mayer

November 30, 2000

Article 3 (The equality of rights between men and women) General Comment No. 28

United Nations

March 29, 2000

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Women's Rights are Human Rights

Charlotte Bunch, Elisabeth Friedman, Elissavet Stamatopoulou

January 1, 1995

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