A Thematic Guide to Documents on the Human Rights of Women

As the term `guide' implies, the series intends to facilitate orientation in international human rights standards by presenting the content of substantive standards. The guides map out the range of human rights and fundamental freedoms as they relate to specific categories of beneficiaries. In all areas, those who are professionally involved in human rights activities need guidance to substantive standards, which are neither widely known nor readily accessible.;Part one groups the relevant provisions from different instruments according to specific rights and freedoms. Part two supplies a chronological list of all the instruments that have been excerpted in Part one, enabling the user to locate the entire document if wished. Part three contains an extensive index of all relevant provisions.