Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transforming human rights from a feminist perspective / Charlotte Bunch -- Women's human rights : the emergence of a movement / Elisabeth Friedman -- Women's rights and the United Nations / Elissavet Stamatopoulou -- Violence against women : the Indian perspective / Indira Jaising -- Legacies of invisibility : past silence, present violence against women in the former Yugoslavia / Jasmina Kuzmanović -- The medium term Philippine development plan toward the year 2000 : Filipino women's issues and perspectives / Liza Largoza-Maza -- Women in South Africa and the constitution-making process / Brigitte Mabandla -- After the revolution : violations of women's human rights in Iran / Akram Mirhosseini -- "Help me balance the load" : gender discrimination in Kenya / Koki Muli -- Women's human rights in the United States : an immigrant's perspective / Ilka Tanya Payan -- Women in Israel : fighting tradition / Carmel Shalev.

The testimony of women writers : the situation of women in China today / Zhu Hong -- Human rights as men's rights / Hilary Charlesworth -- Critiquing gender-neutral treaty language : the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women / Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Stefanie A. Lindquist -- The public/private distinction in international human rights law / Donna Sullivan -- State discriminatory family law and customary abuses / Julie Mertus -- The human rights of women in the family : issues and recommendations for implementation of the Women's Convention / Marsha A. Freeman -- The politics of gender and culture in international human rights discourse / Arati Rao -- Cultural pluralism as a bar to women's rights : reflections on the Middle Eastern experience / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Popularizing women's human rights at the local level : a grassroots methodology for setting the international agenda / Maria Suarez Toro.

Gendered war crimes : reconceptualizing rape in time of war / Rhonda Copelon -- AIDS and gender violence : the enslavement of Burmese women in the Thai sex industry / Hnin Hnin Pyne -- Female genital mutilation / Nahid Toubia -- Freedom close to home : the impact of violence against women on reproductive rights / Lori L. Heise -- International human rights and women's reproductive health / Rebecca J. Cook -- Women's access to productive resources : the need for legal instruments to protect women's development rights / Nadia H. Youssef -- Contextualizing gender and labor : class, ethnicity and global politics in the Yemeni socio-economy / Huda A. Seif -- Women's rights and the right to development / Rhoda E. Howard -- Women and the word : the silencing of the feminine / Siobhan Dowd -- Discrimination and the tolerance of difference : international lesbian human rights / Julie Dorf and Gloria Careaga Pérez -- Human rights for refugee and displaced women / Sima Wali -- Where in the world is there safety for me? : women fleeing gender-based persecution / Pamela Goldberg.