This paper defines a category of ‘emancipation rights', encompassing both women's human rights and children's human rights. The paper argues that some of the emancipatory human rights challenges are the same for women and children: these concern the need to ‘see that category of people...

This paper is a response to the draft guidelines proposed by the OHCHR in an attempt to reform the reporting process under the UN human rights treaties. The paper first provides a background to the "common core document" proposal, followed by a discussion of the draft guidelines on the "common...

The study was conducted with the main objective of analyzing the role of education in eliminating violence against women, and to identifying the nature and forms of violence against women prevailing in the society. The study was delimited to the rural areas of Tehsil Ahmadpur East of district...

This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University...