Human rights of women and girls

"Local Action/Global Change,
Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls"

UNIFEM and the Center for Women's Global Leadership have co-published a training manual on women's human rights entitled, "Local Action/Global Change, Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls," written by Mallika Dutt, Julie Mertus and Nancy Flowers.

The manual combines development of rights awareness with issue-oriented actions and includes substantive information about the human rights of women in such areas as violence, health, reproduction and sexuality, education, the global economy, the workplace, and family life. Each chapter connects the discussion to the provisions of CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) and to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and other international agreements.

Local Action/Global Change provides tools for women and men to critically examine the framework of human rights.