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Third World Attitude towards International Law attempts to look afresh at the history of colonial international law, engage previous trends in third world international law, take cognizance of the dramatic changes which have characterized the body of international law in the last few decades from the perspective of third world peoples, record their resistence to unjust and oppressive international laws, and advance new approaches that address their needs and ...
International law has developed the standard of due diligence as a way to measure whether a state has acted with sufficient effort to live up to its responsibilities to uphold human rights, i.e. to respect, protect and fulfill. Women's rights and human rights are indivisible. All governments are obliged to uphold the basic human rights of each individual on an equal basis. States must ecognize the unique context in which women experience human rights and take ...