The Struggle to be Human: Women’s Human Rights
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8187380330
Length
xviii+107p. Tables; References; Glossary.
Subjects
The Indian Constitution as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantee to every person the right to life, liberty, security, dignity and the right to be free from slavery or servitude. However, a number of women are routinely tortured, mutilated, battered to death, burnt alive, bought and sold as sex slaves-only because they are women. The author explores precisely this spiralling violence within marriage and in the household. She examines how the ...
