Human Rights

Paper Summary:

This paper explains the work of Equality Now, a multinational organization that operates under the paradigm that women around the globe must have the same rights as men. The author describes the work of Equality Now and other organizations in the areas of domestic violence, reproductive rights and gender discrimination. These organizations, the paper relates, fight rape, sexual enslavement and sex tourism, which are crimes against women and men.

Table of Contents:
Feminism Activism
Political and Social Structural Discrimination
Domestic Violence
Reproductive Rights
Gender Discrimination
Abortion
Rape
Sexual Enslavement
Sex Tourism in the United States
Men in Feminism

From the Paper:

"The sex tourism industry uses young women and girls as trade commodities. Along with sexual slavery, this has become both a global and a very successful industry, with the victims and service providers being the same. Particularly important is the role of the US military in encouraging this. Young men on assignment in foreign countries can encourage the industry in several ways. One of these is, for example, by encouraging young women in the foreign countries to have sex for money."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bulbeck, Chilla. 2008. Equality - Do today's young women and men want it? University of Adelaide. http://www.equalopportunity.wa.gov.au/pdf/speech_iwd08.pdf
• Dailard, Cynthia. 2001. Sex Education: Politicians, Parents, Teachers and Teens. The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/04/1/gr040109.html
• Equality Now. http://www.equalitynow.org/english/index.html
• Hosein, Jamela Hosein. 2002. What Does Feminism Mean to Young Women? CAFRA. http://www.cafra.org/article353.html
• Kendrick, Karen. 1998. Producing the Battered Woman: Shelter Politics and the Power of the Feminist Voice. In Community Activism and Feminist Politics edited by Nancy A Naples. Routledge.

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