Women’s Human Rights
Past to Present

Primary Sources

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Women’s Human Rights
Past to Present


Contemporary Human Rights Organizations and Treaties

•  Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women: excerpts.  http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-11.html

•  From “Global to Local” program: alternative reports from non-governmental groups in countries assessing the process toward implementing CEDAW.  http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/writing_shadow.htm

•  Special Rapporteur: 1996 summary of types of violence.  http://www.un.org/rights/dpi1772e.htm

•  Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict. http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/24.shtml

•  Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies: in Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Malay, Persian, Russian, Urdu and Uzbek. http://www.comminit.com/materials/materials/materials-534.html

•  Women Living Under Muslim Laws: an international solidarity network. top site, http://www.wluml.org/english/index.shtml

•  Feminist Majority Foundation: global updates.  http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=9093

•  Equality Now: domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking, and political participation.
     http://www.equalitynow.org/english/index.html

•  Women’s Human Rights net (WHRnet):  http://www.whrnet.org/

•  Women’s Human Rights Resources:  http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/whrr/index.cfm?sister=utl&CFID=979069&CFTOKEN=21618543

•  WWW reaching women.: way to find women’s organizations aroung the world.
     http://www.wwwomen.com/category/divers/cultur1.html

•  Global List of Women’s Organizations.  http://www.distel.ca/womlist/womlist.html

•  UNIFEM: Note updated news on actions around the world.  http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/human_rights/

•  Women, ink. See book “Gains and Gaps in Worlds Women” 2006.  http://www.womenink.org/

•  Women Watch: Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women. Top site.      http://www.wwwomen.com/category/divers/cultur1.html

•  Human Rights Watch: “Women’s Property Rights: Violations Doom Equality and Development.” case study to introduce issues property rights.  http://hrw.org/campaigns/women/property/


Primary Sources: History

•  World History Connected, “Her Marriage Bondage” - Primary Sources Explore Women's Marriage Rights, Special Women's History Issue (sometime in 2007).

•  Distinquished Women of Past: Human Rights  http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/hrights.html

•  Traditional Sayings & Inspiring Quotes.  http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-12.html

•  Code of Hammurabi, (c. 1780 BCE)  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html

•  Code of Assura Assyrians (c.1975 BCE)  http://www.world-mysteries.com/awr_laws3.htm

•  “Inheritance Law of and through Women in the Middle Assyrian Period:”
     http://www.chs.harvard.edu/activities_events.sec/conferences.ssp/conference_women_property.pg

•  Ischomachus's wife: “The Economist” by Xenophon (c. 430-355 BCE):
     http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/historical/TheEconomist/chap8.html

•  Women’s Legal Status in Roman World: Find The Twelve Tables (excerpt): Gaius, on guardianship. Marriage Laws, Julian marriage laws (Emperor Augustus c. 18 BCE)   http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-romanlegal112.shtml

•  Justinian Code. (533 CE): selections that follow the first part code:
     http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/classes/his381/MarriageDigestCode.htm
     A short lesson:  filebox.vt.edu/users/rteague/PORT/byz-jcode.PDF

•  Ban Zhoa (c 48-120 BCE), China.   http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/banzhao.html

•  The Mother of Mencius, (c. 372 – 289 BCE), China; short text:  http://www.humanistictexts.org/menmoth.htm

•  Indian History Sourcebook: Kautilya  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/kautilya2.html

•  Laws of Manu, (c. 500 BCE - 200 CE) India: compendium of ancient sacred laws and customs by the orthodox adherents of Brahminism. Lesson included.  http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-01.html

•  Greater Learning for Women (Japan, 1762)  http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kaibara.html

•  Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine: Peter of Blois letter to Chastise Her (1173): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/eleanor.html

•  Magdeburg Law: (1261) Germany.   http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-02.html

•  Christine de Pizan, (1364-ca.1431) “A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor,” “The Treasury of the city of Ladies,” France.
     http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/documents/mirror.htm

•  Advice Books on mariage: William Gouge, “Of Domesticall Duties” (1622).  http://www.elizabethi.org/us/essays/marriage.htm

•  Homily appointed to be read in Churches in time of Queen Elizabeth I  http://dayspring.bizland.com/docs/homilies/Hom2-18.htm

•  Quotes from Mary Astell (1700), England:  http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/astell/astellquot.php

•  Mary Wollstonecraft debates Jean-Jacque Rousseau (1791) England.  http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-03.html

•  Women’s Petition to the National Assembly 1789, France.
     http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/searchfr.php?function=find&keyword=women%27s+petition+national+assembly&x=12&y=12

•  Olympe De Gouges, “Declaration of the Rights of Woman,” 1791. France.
     http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/decwom2.html

•  French Civil Code: Napoleonic Codes: 1803.  http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/c_code.html

•  Caroline Norton (1824 & 1855), England.  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wnorton.htm

•  “A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill”
     http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/letter.html#Text

•  Married Women’s Property Act. (1880), England.  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wproperty.htm

•  Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. (1848), U.S.A. http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/seneca3.html

•  Ernestine Rose, Women’s Rights Convention, (1851) U.S.A.
     http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/ Ernestine_Rose_Website/1851speech.html

•  John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women” (1869), England.  http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/xMil1869.htm

•  Maria Eugenia Echenique: “The Emancipation of Women,” (1876) Argentina
     http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/echenique.html

•  Meiji Civil Code of 1898 and Kishida Toshiko, (1863-1901) - Japan   
     http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-04.html#Anchor-Kishida-47857

•  Qasim Amin “The Liberation of Woman” (1899), and Cronology of Major Events of women’s rights, (1873 - 1994), Egpyt.
     http://www.mediterraneas.org/print.php3?id_article=72

•  Malik Hefni Nassef (pen name Bahithat al-Badiyya), lecture (1909). Egypt.  http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-05.html

•  Alexandra Kollontai: ”Communism and the Family,” (1920), Russia   
     http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm

•  Marriage Law of 1950: China  http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/restricted/marriage.htm

•  Li Kuei-ying (1960) China  http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-06.html


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