مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري

Abstract :

The President of the United Nations General Assembly and the Secretary-General jointly proposed on March, 8 2012 international women’s day that convening of the Fifth UN World Conference on Women in 2015 is discussed at the 66th session of the General Assembly in September. The aim of this paper is to analyze women’s human rights movement the development and momentum of which corresponds with the previously held women’s conferences at a time when momentum and demands from women’s organizations for a fifth conference is growing. Women’s human rights movement challenged international human rights law and mechanisms by claiming that they do not adequately represent women’s human rights. The movement showed that universal human rights norms are patriarchal and state-centered because the conceptualization and functioning of these norms are based on the public/private distinction and aim at providing a guarantee against the violation of individual civil and political rights by state agents. Taking into consideration that, at the fifth conference, a new generation of women leaders will discuss the factors effecting enjoyment of women’s human rights and states’ role in preventing and criminalizing their violation; analyzing the development and main theoretical framework of women’s human rights movement will help us to understand a new generation of women’s human rights advocacy from a broader perspective.