This paper examines the problems that various contemporary human rights discourses face
with relativism, with special reference to the global protection of women's rights. These …

The central aims of this article are twofold: first to debate whether or not women's human
rights can underpin a universal feminist project; second to defend women's human rights as …

I n the latter half of the twentieth century, the greatest challenge to in-ternational human
rights comes from cultural relativism and religious extremism. In fact, it could be argued that …

The article seeks to explain and understand the contradictions within universalistic claims of
feminism. It also highlights the challenges the Women's Movement is facing within the …

Academic debate on the relationship between Islam and the Western human rights cannon
has been dominated and debilitated by the theoretical battle between cultural relativists and …

This paper argues that the recent calls for articulating women's rights as human rights can
be successful only by misrecognition of the geopolitical context of human rights …

In recent years, feminism and cultural relativism have been among the most vigorous and
the most visible critiques of dominant human rights discourse. On many issues feminists and …

This article gets its inspiration from Amina Lawai's case, which was finally settled in
September 2003. The case had aroused global attention not only because of the inhuman …

When talking about human rights, anthropologists often find it difficult to reconcile an
apparent conflict between individual and collective rights, and cultural relativity and …

What is the source of human rights' resonance and does that legitimize working on human
rights transnationally? This article responds both to human rights critics (among them …