Academic Texts

Troy Salem

Daniela Valdés Arenas

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Women’s Rights as Human Rights Workshop

1. The promotion of human rights works as a counter-culture because most of the measures
shown in the declaration were opposed to some religious and traditional norms of some
cultures. These norms are clear violations of the Declaration of Human Rights, but
promoters of these believe they are an attack to their cultural values and traditions.
2. The egalitarian approach advocates for the idea of the equal treatment of sexes
promoting the value of women as key pieces for the development of society. On the other
hand, the patriarchal approach perceives women as defective creatures that their solely
work in society is childbearing and housekeeping.
3. In the text, the author refers to the omission of women as the deliberated exclusion of
women in documents and acts that promote human rights as I women weren’t worthy of
them, as second class citizens.
4. Women as “misbegotten men“, refers to the idea that women are men that came out
defective or badly planned.
5. There is a need to acknowledge human rights as equal rights for men and women. So, in
the Declaration of Human Rights it’s imperative to use gender neutral terms.
6. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document created in 1948 that acts like a
global road map for freedom and equality protecting the rights of every individual,
everywhere. Its idea is to protect the freedom and to maintain justice and peace.
7. This convention is about the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.
8. State parties agree to modify or abolish existing laws, customs and others that promote
and encourage discrimination against women. State parties shall ensure the development
of women to guarantee equality with men; and to take measures to modify social and
cultural patterns that promote the prejudices and other practices that are based on the
idea of inferiority or superiority of any of the sexes or their stereotyped roles for them.
9. Cultural Relativism promotes the cultural preservation of patriarchal societies (in religion,
cultural practices, customs etc.) protecting the privileged member of society that believe
that the instauration of human rights would jeopardized their positions of power.
10. The relativist argument should not be valid because international human rights appeal to
the removal or change of religious, cultural and traditional matters that violate the human
rights with state parties’ explanation of their reservations about these practices.