Local Action/Global Change

This handbook on women's human rights is an integrated set of fourteen teaching and learning units. Together they are designed to identify key issues in women's human rights define concepts outline different methodologies for achieving women's human rights and offer a wide range of activities to facilitate teaching learning and discussion of women's human rights challenges. Included in every chapter are a statement of key objectives background information discussion questions special issue boxes strategies and examples for taking action and learning activities. Also included are key UN documents and international law bearing on women's human rights. Handouts checklists assessment forms and activist organizations round out the range of reference materials provided. User-friendly jargon-free authoritative and packed with hands-on information the handbook is an essential resource for anyone working in the field human rights professionals scholars students and activists.