This course offers students an opportunity to learn the basic history and discourse of women’s human rights. It will cover United Nations instruments of human rights law, the reframing of women’s rights as human rights as an example of feminist theory in action, and the application of human rights to issues of gender-based violence, health, and sexuality.
It is grounded in the experience of the global movement for women's human rights and the diverse voices from around the world that have shaped it over the past two decades.