Women and Human Rights

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The title of this volume, Women and Human Rights might be taken innocently to indicate its contents: a set of lectures given by women on the rights of women, on the failure to achieve those rights, and on the reasons and remedies for those failures. However, it might also imply that women’s rights are not simply the extension of the agreed rights of men to all members of the community. In other words, the "lived in" experience of being female results in a distinctive account of the nature of rights and the applicability of the language of rights to the status of women as equally valuable social, political, and economic agents. Women, therefore, might be expected to give a distinctive critique of the theory of rights that depends on their difference from men.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anju Bindra

Anju Bindra, B.A. (Hons). L.L.B. (Agra University), L.L.M. (Devi-Ahilya Unioversity), is a Lecturer in the faculty of Law, University of Mumbai. She has previously worked for the Indian Attorney-General's Department and the Indian Human Rights Commission, and has taught at the University of Delhi. She has worked with a number of international and local organisations in the area of human rights including women's rights. Presently she is Secretary of the Center for Constitutional Rights in Hyderabad and a consultant to the women's programs of the International Indian Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Delinquency.