UNIFEM: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”

Women’s Rights are Human Rights brought up topics that to this point I had not considered controversial, but when everything was laid before me in this article I began to see the connections that have been made. While I understand that countries oppress women because of their gender I did not know the extent of such treatment until this article. Much of this oppression is obvert and under the international level that would entail outrage and this oppression is in the form of violence weather that be physical or emotional.

While international treaties have been signed to protect women, these treaties do not completely eradicate such treatment, and education is very important to end such measures in the future. From this article I understood that often these treaties are focused on just on part of the issue, and in order to create lasting change the root of the problem must be addressed. Hopefully these types of measures will be taken up in the future.