Global Issue: Women’s Rights

Global Citizenship and the Rights of women Global Citizen A “Global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices.” (Kosmosjournal.org, 2016). Global citizens are all of us who identify with taking action against world issues. Global Citizenship (cosmopolitism) looks at us as needing to be patriotic to our nation-state, but also needing to put humanity and the greater good globally first

Gender inequality has been a crucial issue throughout the years all around the world for the past few decades. Women are mistreated and often oppressed by patriarchal societies. Women’s rights are often dismissed and it is believed that women are not capable of being independent which has highly affects women population. A group of women in Nicaragua organized movements to fight over land ownership by men. They are seeking plots of land to farm in order to contribute to the food security of their

on the small scale; pay gap, equal opportunities, protecting rights. On a larger scale, globally the issues increase by ten folds. The issues, feminist focus on in the United States are miniscule compared to the genital mutilation and the normalizing of rape that goes on across the globe. These women’s organizations are working wonders,fighting to protect the rights of women, and provide safety; Isis International and The African Women’s Development and Communication Network. Providing women with

Reproductive Rights Women’s reproductive rights are a global issue in today’s world. Women have to fight to have the right to regulate their own bodies and reproductive choices, although in some countries their voices are ignored. Abortion, sterilization, contraceptives, and family planning services all encompass this global issue of women’s reproductive rights. In India, women are being manipulated to stop having children after their second birth. Officials claim that by regulating population

Contemp Perspectives Raju Parrakkal 13 October 2015 Women’s Rights Discrimination against women has been a phenomenon for centuries, lack of women’s rights and equality is a long overdue issue that needs to be abolished. The need to make a concrete connection between human rights and women’s rights is ironic considering that one half of the global population is female (Hawkins 1). Gender inequality is the pressing current human rights issue, including disparities in education, employment, healthcare

rainforests and the biodiversity in there. Is the problem a regional issue? Is this problem unique to a part of the world, or is it a global issue? Despite the problem of deforestation being limited to the region of Brazil, the effects can be felt globally. The clearing of the Amazon forest in Brazil leads to less trees that are able to absorb the greenhouse gas emissions, leaving more carbon in the atmosphere that clearly affects global warming and climate change. The raise in temperature of our planet

trouble gaining equal rights. Countries such as: Iran (where women have to cover their face and legs), Saudi Arabia (where women can not be in public without their face covered), and France (where you can not cover your face in public), have strict rules about what clothing women can wear (Bruce-Lockhart) (Kim). Women have been suffering and fighting for rights around the world for centuries. Some of the many major issues that they fought for or are still fighting for now are the right to vote, the political

rise to the highest levels, including the office of the Prime Minister, and despite laws which protect the rights of women, inequality between men and women remains widespread and deep rooted in many cultural practices and traditions. Like other women in developing countries, Caribbean women face though choices every day,- choices where cultural tradition often conflict with their human rights. Women who chose to have children have been made to live with that often repeated phrase that the problems

Economic Crisis: a Global Jobs Pact as well as Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective into all Policies and Programmes in the United Nations System.With the issues we are faced with in this committee session, we feel that the topic on the Global Jobs Pact should take precedence over mainstreaming gender perspectives. After the worldwide recession that started in 2007, there were many impacts that hit us more so than gender perspectives. For this reason, we feel that the issue of the Global Jobs Pact and

Indigenous and Global Feminist Perspectives on the Women of Chiapas Women's reproductive health is a debated and complex issue in today's society. Nowhere is its severity more prevalent than in areas of extreme poverty such as south and Central America. The resolution to these problems is far from simple. Yet, women are increasingly taking control of their lives and forming groups to combat many of the prejudices that hold them back. However highly debated some tactics for resolution may be it