Chapter 14: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

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Chapter 14 Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Rigoberta Menchú Tum and IndiraGhandi
The 1995 UN Conference onWomen
Social Justice Advocates in Kenya andNorthern Ireland
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-192

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Abstract

The women’s rights movement in the United States primarily was primarily focused on securing equality for American females. However, there wasalways a recognition that the rights and liberties sought in the United States were also applicable to women around the world. By the 1900s, it became increasingly clear that there were deep disparities between the lives and lifestyles of women in the developed world and those in developing nations.

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