Women's Right and Gay Marriage

Women's Right and Gay Marriage

Introduction

Women's Rights

Women rights refer to the basic and secondary rights as well as the freedom women and girls of all ages have in today's world. These rights are sometimes, institutionalized and are sometimes not by being, ignored and suppressed by the law, local customs of the community and the way a particular society behaves. The freedom women are deprived off are grouped and then distinguished from wider notion of human right because they generally differ from the freedoms that are originally for men and boys, and therefore this has become a crucial issue for activists who have identified this as a traditional and historical prejudice against women rights.

These issues are generally in association with the notions of women rights. The factors and issues are; right to integrity of body and autonomy, the right to be nominated for political positions and right to vote, to hold public office, right to work and to fair wages and equal remuneration, right to have ownership of property, the right to education, to serve in the armed forces and the right to conclude contracts.

Women's rights continue to be one of the most acute issues of international human rights law, and for the time elapsed after the establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It caused many to rethink their understanding of the issue. Whether it is cultural relativism, international humanitarian law and war crimes, it is still, considered a criterion that requires due care or the right to respect for gender identity as the all female theme emerges as a defining moment in the approach to human rights.

At the international level for the movement for women's rights, there are two main phases.  The first phase is of the fight against discrimination, which has led to the adoption of the Convention based on the Elimination of Every Form of Discrimination against Women. It affects discrimination in health and education, public attitudes, political participation and equal rights within the family (Lockwood, 2006).

The convention does not contain provisions relating to violence against women. The second phase began in 1980. The international women's movement saw a force capable of effectively influencing the government to encourage them to change the law in accordance with the international standards. This phase culminated in the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and the creation of the Committee for Human Rights for Violence against Women (Hosken, 1981).

Because of active work internationally, many debatable issues of human rights are, now viewed in close connection with the rights of women. For example, a serious challenge to the idea of ??the universality of human rights has been the principle of cultural relativism. There are various forms of violence against women such as female genital mutilation, self-immolation of widows on the funeral pyre with the body of the husband, a Hindu tradition or of the norms of marriage rights and women's rights in the family. The supporters of cultural relativism argue every time that the ...