Human Rights: A Feminist Analysis

Women who do not go through with the policy are forced to have an early abortion or sterilization which is against their Human Rights. Accordingly to Document E after 1986 gender imbalance in china has been increasing drastically. Because of this China has 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20. Because of this gender-imbalance there has been labor-shortages in many factories. From looking at the information in Documents D and E we can see that China’s One-Child Policy has not helped the society at

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem and one of the most shameful crimes in existence, since it robs millions of people worldwide dignity. The traffickers trick women, men and children from every corner of the planet and subject them daily to situations of exploitation. Although the most well-known form of trafficking in persons is sexual exploitation, hundreds of thousands of victims are also trafficked for the purpose of forced labor, prostitution, or organ harvesting. Considered as modern slavery, trafficking in persons involves the purchase and sale of people, where the victim is owned by another individual. “Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking).

The first step is to eliminate gender discrimination and the curbing the demand for commercial sex. It is critical to implement legal safeguards for women and girls to eliminate poverty and create greater possibilities for non-exploitative options for females. Gender inequality and discriminatory views trap women in an endless loophole of tough decisions. Factors like the lack of access to resources, such as housing, land, property, and inheritance, and the cycles of sexual violence and assault exposes them to prostitution and trafficking. Demand boosts sex trafficking and commercial sex ; Demanders and buyers should be held accountable and punished in order to comprehend this phenomenon.

All across the world being born a woman means that far less opportunities are available and from birth some woman are not provided with basic education which in turn leads to these women looking for jobs as unskilled workers such as domestic workers or agricultural workers as they are uneducated and illiterate. The pay for these jobs are very low and many of these women are mistreated in their places of

In this book, author Siddharth Kara investigates the dynamics of the global sex trade industry in attempts to address key impediments in establishing effective global response to eradicate it (Kara, p. 24). The central argument of this book is that the flagrancy and universality of sex trafficking can be understood as the result of colossal profits associated with selling sex inexpensively and globally (Kara, p. 24). Throughout this book the author provides an account of his journey into the world of sex trafficking by sharing the stories of victims, testimonies of participants and industry leaders, and further, illustrating a background of the financial, economic, and legal circumstances surrounding the industry. Kara provides an analysis

Having the power to choose whether to give birth to a boy or girl is a very powerful and disturbing tool. In the book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl, she tells a story about places like China, Vietnam, and India who are aborting female infants because “Males are the dominate gender.” The general research question of this study is to figure out why this is happening without looking at this as a “culture” issue, but as a universal gender imbalance phenomenon. Throughout the book, Hvistendahl talks about different stories of women who decided to get an abortion. The mind blowing part of all of this is that they truly believe they are helping their country with controlling

In simple words, by sterilizing female’s fetus, it is shown how this society relays more on males, not minding if the future offspring are based on males. Just because of this gender preference, woman have to suffer the disadvantage of going through this procedure and feeling a bit less important. Dissatisfaction among citizens in a supposedly utopian society might arise due to the fact that racism is present and a difference between males and females exists; not necessarily social classes are established based on gender, but it is for sure seen how one

Countries in South Asia have started suggesting birth control because the population is growing too big for its country. The problem with birth control is that most husbands will not allow their wives to use birth control until she gives birth to a male heir. Consequently, female babies are being mistreated and possibly killed in South Asia today. In 1994, the government made it illegal for a person to find out the sex of their baby due to people terminating the pregnancy

Since the 1800’s till this day Women’s Rights has been a controversial topic. For many years powerful and non powerful women have struggled to prove that women’s rights are human rights. Women’s rights are the effort to secure equal rights for women around the world and to have equality and remove gender discrimination. Related issues to women’s rights include or have included the right to vote, to work, work pay, birth control, to hold public office, to own property, to serve in the military, to have parental rights, and many more. Susan B. Anthony was a feminist and a leader to the women’s suffrage movement in the late 1800s.

Women and children trafficked into sex industries are often forced into activities such as prostitution and pornography. The basis of the sex trafficking trade is female victims and male perpetrators and the gender roles of victims and perpetrators value gender-focused strategies to combat sex trafficking (Busch-Armendariz, 2009). Sex trafficking. Sex trafficking receives a great deal of attention, trafficking for labour purposes is actually in greater demand (Gozdziak, 2008). Labour trafficking applies to men, women, boys and girls.

Social exclusion, “honor” killings, female genital mutilation, trafficking, restricted mobility and early marriage among others, deny the right to health, to women and girls and increase illness and death throughout the life-course” (Herr). Women in third world countries have had the obligation of laborious, gender-assigned duties, while men have had access to technology, education, technical training, land, credit, and basic needs from their government. This is a normal custom in Indonesia, India, Iraq, and Iran. Women have no rights to speak and are sexually and physically abused with no punishment for the husband. There are no laws to protect women and girls from this abuse.

When times were hard economically, parents often had trouble taking care of multiple children. Thus, daughters were the ones to suffer first. Parents sometimes sold the young girls into prostitution and if they had infants, they were killed. Daughters also were considered ‘expendable”, meaning they would marry or be placed with another family through adoption or servitude. Women, whether they were young or old, were not respected.

This is something that concerns every girl and women around regions, nations, and countries. In Mexico, excessive murders, disappearance, and rape have been tremendous problems for ten years and still going (The Facts: Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women and Girls Around the World, Paragraph 5). In South Asia, dowry death murders thousands of women each year, and honor killings continue to rise drastically in many Mediterranean and Gulf countries (The Facts: Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women and Girls Around the World, Paragraph 8). Honor killings caused 500 women to die each year, 47% were raped then killed, and around 400 were beaten and/or tortured (The Facts: Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women and Girls Around the World, Paragraph 9-11). This is also reasons why physical and sexual abuse among females is increasing by the second all around the world.

“Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique of International Human Rights- Friends or Foes?” The journal, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique of International Human Rights- Friends or Foes?” by Oonagh Reitman have the aim to know deeper about the two critiques towards the universal Human Rights by the two major theory, which are the Cultural Relativism and Feminism, how they see the universal Human Rights theory. The Journal address for the workshop discussion matter regarding to the similarities on critique of International human rights that made by the Cultural relativist and the feminist. “ Human Rights is the right that given and held by human simply because they are human, and it does not classified nor held by certain groups or not the subject to variation in culture”(Donnelly 1989: 109-110) From the introduction in the journal, the writer defines how the feminist and the cultural relativist express their idea of Universal human rights. The idea of Universal human rights from Donnelly were being reserve by Relativist, they argue that the human rights itself root from culture and due to the variation of culture, making the human rights not universal.

is a destination point for victims, there are many possible global solutions to combat sex trafficking. Examining the reasons sex trafficking persists in a country built on the ideals of liberty and freedom can aid in creating successful solutions to solve the problem of human trafficking, specifically sex trafficking. The most common form of modern day slavery, sex trafficking is defined for the purposes of this paper as the “transportation of persons within or across boundaries by force, fraud, or deception for the purpose of sexual exploitation.” Sex trafficking is a lucrative industry, existing in all types of sex industries such as prostitution, pornography, massage parlors, and strip