Impact of Human Rights Abuse on Women

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Impact of Human Rights Abuse on Women
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1. Essay question
The main essay question of this paper is why the human rights abuses impacts more
significantly on the women.
2. Thesis
Everyone is familiar of the phrase called the “human rights”. It refers to the privileges
that the individuals get just on the basis of being human beings. Human rights is an essential
part of every man’s life and it has been continuously evolving all through the history of
mankind. Still, these rights have always been violated and are abused in the human history.
However, the major impacts of these human rights abuse is on the women of the very nations
where it is been abused. This paper shall argue on the basis of the defined essay question. It
shall argue on why this is the case in most of the countries, especially in India and Pakistan.
3. Empirical and theoretical focus of the essay
It is to note that abusing women and violation against them is also a violation of
human rights. The violence against the women is a significant obstacle against the gender
equality (Garcia-Moreno et al. 2016). Like men, women too are entitles to equal protection
and enjoyment of each and every human rights as well as the fundamental freedoms like the
right to life, equality, liberty, freedom of speech, security, protection under law, free from all
discrimination, favourable condition of work and the right of not to be subjected to any kind
of inhuman treatments (Sen 2017). Still, as per Garcia-Moreno et al. (2015) in most of the
countries women are still not safe and they are numerous violence actions that are been taken
against them. Violence against the females include, but it is not limited to the violence taking
place in family, rape in relationship or marital rape, women trafficking, sexual exploitation,
harassment at workplace, abortion, forced prostitution, infanticide of the new born baby girls,
practicing harmful traditional practices including genital mutilation, early marriage, forced

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marriage, stoning, honour killing, acid attack, widow burning etc. (Heise 2018). Although
men too experience gender violence as well, but it is the women all around the world who are
disproportionately impacted by the sexual violence. As per the WHO, above 35% of the
women experience sexual and physical violence throughout their life time (Cook et al. 2017).
4. Essay structure
The section 1 of this essay has provided the main question, answering which this
essay has elaborate on. Secondly, the section 2 has presented the thesis of the paper and
section 3 has shed light on outlining wide range of empirical and theoretical focus of the
essay. Lastly, section 5 has presented a brief annotated bibliography on the most useful
source that have been consulted.
5. Annotated bibliography
5.1. Article 1
Bunch, C., 2018. Transforming human rights from a feminist perspective. In Women's
rights, human rights (pp. 11-17).
This article has explored on the contribution of the feminist to the discourse of human
rights in several ways. The initial portion of this study has described and analysed the
evolution of the concept of “women’s rights are human rights” and the development of the
notion of indivisibility of the rights. The next part of the paper shed light on the debates of
the feminist in the context of women’s human rights in the three issue contexts and they are-
democratization, globalisation and the culture. This paper concluded on the notion of the
present challenges in regard to the data collection in assessing the achievement of the human
rights of the women. The concept of the human rights has been contested in several different
ways in this study (Bunch 2018). However, the major limitation of this study is that it could