“Women Rights & Children Rights: A Step Towards A Re-Vision Of Human Rights”

Abstract

Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that every person in the world should have. Everyone has the right to life and liberty, Freedom of expression, Equality before the law, the right to be free from discrimination, the right to participate in culture, the right to
education. People with may experience unfair treatment because of factors such as how they look, how they identify, their age or gender, or who they choose to love. In women's rights the gender dimension is an essential element. In the field of children's rights, the generation and age dimension are of great significance. Women’s and children’s right played an important role in the development of human rights between private entities. Rights are not luxuries. Although rights cannot be realized, if needs are not met, simply meeting needs is not enough. The problems facing vulnerable women and children have immediate, underlying and structural causes and many have common roots. These could be discrimination in various forms, including gender bias, unsafe environments or chronic poverty. Through this paper I would like to provide a conceptual framework for understanding human rights. It also offers a brief look at the evolution of the women’s and children’s rights movements and explains why an emphasis on women in development eventually gave way to a focus on gender equality. Finally, it describes the legal instruments and mechanisms that have been created to protect and promote these rights, foremost among them the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It shows where the rights of women and children
intersect and how both conventions and the committees that monitor them can be successfully employed to safeguard these rights.