The Indian Development of Women Journalists and Human Rights

Abstract

Abstract The concept of women's human rights owes its success and the creation of its use to the fact that it is revolutionary. The idea of women's human rights makes common sense. It declares that as human beings women have human rights. Anyone would find her or himself hard pressed to publicly make and defend the contrary argument that women are not human. So in many ways, the claim that women have human rights seems quite ordinary. On the other hand, "women's human rights" is a revolutionary notion. This fundamental recovery of humanity and the corollary insistence that women's rights are human rights have profound transformative potential. In the 1980s and 1990s, women's movements around the world formed networks and coalitions to give greater visibility both to the problems that women face every day and to the centrality of women's experiences in economic, social, political and environmental issues. In the development of what is becoming a global women's movement, the term "women's human rights" has served as a locus for praxis, that is, for the development of political strategies shaped by the interaction between analytical insights and concrete political practices. The critical tools, the determined activism, and the broad-based international networks that have grown up around movements for women's human rights have become a vehicle for women to develop the political skills necessary for the 21th century.