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The United Nations’ World Conference on Human Rights
produces the Vienna Declaration, which uses the term “human
rights of women” in two interrelated ways. First, women’s
shared rights with men — such as nourishment, safety, and
education — and women’s entitlement to equal access to these
human rights, without gender discrimination; and second,
women’s rights as human beings to be free from “gender-
specifi c abuses” such as “murder, systematic rape, sexual
slavery, and forced pregnancy,” as was tragically prevalent
in “situations of armed confl ict.”
1994 Serbian edition of the Rights of Woman published during the
Kosovo War.
1995 Chinese translation of 1929 Everyman edition of Rights of
Woman and Subjection of Women published in Beijing.
United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women
in Beijing. U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton delivers address
entitled “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” Conference
generates global Platform for Action for women’s equality,
empowerment, and justice.
1997 Swedish edition of the Rights of Woman.
1999 Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen links
Wollstonecraft to his theory of women’s human rights to “free
agency” and “well-being” in his Development as Freedom.
2000 The United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals set as
top development priorities for the world the rights of girls and
women in extreme poverty to improved health, education, and
empowerment.
2007 Turkish edition of the Rights of Woman.
2008 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 recognizes
sexual violence as a potential war crime, crime against hu-
manity, or act of genocide. Such violations of women’s human
rights demand protection for the victims, plus preventative
measures such as the incorporation of women into peace
processes.
2010 UN Women established to tie together the disparate groups
within the United Nations that work on women’s human rights
and development issues.
2011 The Arab Uprisings, some mobilized by women such as
Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman of Yemen, assert