The importance of addressing human rights issues as they specifically pertain to women and others suffering disadvantage or oppression within gender-based power structures has been widely recognised. Women’s human rights are an overarching phenomenon touching on all aspects of the international human rights framework. As this chapter will discuss, these generic discrimination clauses have, in a number of ways, proved inadequate to capture the specific nature of violations suffered by women and to provide adequate protection. The instruments composing the international Bill of Rights contain general non-discrimination clauses which include the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex or gender, whereby the rights within these instruments are held to be applicable to everyone, regardless of, inter alia, sex. The disadvantages, discrimination and subordination suffered by women globally have been well documented in a variety of contexts, yet the issue of women’s human rights has until relatively recently been neglected in international law.
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