Womenʹs Rights and Childrenʹs Rights: Towards an integrates approach in development cooperation
Beginning of the introduction
Within the conceptual field of human rights, certain principles are deeply rooted. Thus, the universal consensus is that, in order to respect and protect the dignity of human beings, these rights are inalienable, indivisible and interdependent, and apply to every person equally and without discrimination. At the same time, it is obvious that, on the one hand, certain categories of people do not currently feel that they are represented in the respect and implementation of their human rights in their daily lives and, on the other hand, that history is punctuated by sometimes extreme disharmonies in the exercise of the human rights of certain groups of people. In recent decades, there have been many attempts to redress these inequalities in order to realise the vision that Martin Luther King Jr. expressed with unparalleled poetic intensity: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”. In this chapter, we focus on womenʼs rights and childrenʼs rights, two categories of people whose human rights advances are recent and dramatic, but also often achieved in parallel. From our perspective on childrenʼs rights, we will particularly question some of the effects that the emergence of the field of childrenʼs rights, symbolised by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child have excercised on the rights of women. Without claiming to be exhaustive, we will selectively address parts of recent history and highlight points of tension and convergence between childrenʼs rights and womenʼs rights. [...]
In: Enfants du Monde and University of Geneva (eds.). 2021. Womenʼs Rights and Childrenʼs Rights. Towards an
integrated approach in development cooperation. Geneva, pp. 12-25.
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Publication information
Institutions:
Authors:
Editors:
Enfants du Monde (EdM) and the Centre for Childrenʼs Rights Studies of the University of Geneva (UNIGE)
Publisher:
Enfants du Monde and the Centre for Childrenʼs Rights Studies of the University of Geneva, with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) of the Swiss Confederation
Languages:
French, English
Media Type:
City:
Geneva
Year:
2021
Themes:
Disciplines:
Research labels:
Human rights – women's rights – minority rights
Childhood – adolescence
Subjects:
Gender Studies, Law, Political Studies, Psychology
Genres:
Book chapter