Women in United Nations Human Rights History

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WOMEN AND THE UDHR

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WOMEN AND THE UN

A critical history of women shaping human rights at the United Nations.

PUBLIC PHOTO EXHIBIT70th Anniversary UDHR at the UN Headquarters New York

Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 70 years after its adoption 1948. Photo exhibit 'Women who helped shape the declaration' at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Exhibit opened by the Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, with President of the General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa. Exhibit based on Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2019) by researcher Rebecca Adami.

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The Swedish Middle Way and UN Experiences in Domestic Politics

This paper distinguishes Swedish feminist internationalists in the early Cold War years appointed to high positions at the United Nations (UN) whose political commitments were connected to pluralism, democracy, and a solidarity with the poor..

Revisiting the Past: Human Rights Education and Epistemic Justice

Epistemic injustice in human rights education (HRE) can be found in a colonial historical trajectory of human rights that rests on accounts of western agency only. Such narratives overshadow the legacy of Indian and Pakistani freedom fighters and Latin American feminists..

Intersectional dialogue - Analyzing power in reaching a Universal Declaration of Human Rights on conflicting grounds

The concept of “intersectional dialogue” is developed in the article to analyze intersections of power in dialogue, specifically in analyzing the relations between the particular and the universal in the..

On Subalternity and Representation: Female and Post Colonial Subjects Claiming Universal Human Rights in 1948

Recent research has questioned the dominant narrative of human rights as a Western project, by re-reading the drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, as rooted in..

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Intersectional Dialogue: A Cosmopolitan Dialogue of Ethics

Reconciling Universality and Particularity through a Cosmopolitan Outlook on Human Rights

Counter Narratives as Political Contestation: Universality, Particularity and Uniqueness

In A Man’s Words – the politics of female representation in the Public

PODCASTUnited Nations Geneva Library

"In this rich conversation, Dr. Adami shares with us the context of situation post-World War II and tells us the story of how the rights of women were included in the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She introduces us to several of the prominent non-Western women who were behind the negotiations both at the San Francisco Conference and for the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including Hansa Jivraj Mehta and Lakshmi Menon from India, Minerva Bernardino from the Dominican Republic, and Begum Shaista Ikramullah from Pakistan."