Global feminism recognizes that women's rights issues vary across regions and cultures but that women everywhere deserve equal rights. The UN has made important contributions to advancing women's rights through agencies, conventions, and world conferences that have increased awareness of issues like violence, poverty, and discrimination facing women globally. However, challenges remain in fully implementing and enforcing women's rights standards due to lack of accountability, cultural relativism arguments against universal standards, and the marginalization of women's issues within mainstream human rights bodies.

1. Women’s Rights WOST 110

3. Global feminism recognizes diversity & acknowledges that there are diverse meanings of feminism, each responsive to the needs and issues of women in different regions, societies and times.

6. Sexual assault is a form of terrorism

7. and rape is a form of torture

8. Female infanticide & neglect

10. Gender-based asylum for domestic violence and FGM

12. Four major international women’s rights conferences

13. Programs and initiatives specific to women’s issues and needs

15. Monitors the Situation of Women

16. Promotes Women’s Rights

17. Sets Universal Standards Regarding the Status of Women

18. Has a leading Role in Bringing Women’s Concerns to the Attention of the UN Specialized Agencies

20. The Creation of National and International Forums

21. Gathering Data about Women

22. Holding Three World Women’s Conferences

24. Legal changes

26. The growth of the NGO forums

27. Transnational feminist movement

31. Nairobi

32. Looking at strategies for the advancement of women

35. Inequalities in education, politics, the economy

36. Violence against women

37. Persistent discrimination against and violation of the rights of the girl child

39. Women have the right to decide freely and responsibly the matters related to their sexuality, without discrimination, coercion, or violence

40. Affirming governments’ responsibility to implement the Beijing Platform For Action

42. Definition of Discrimination

44. Education

46. Inquiry Procedure

48. War crimes against women

49. Violation of women’s bodily integrity

50. Socioeconomic abuses

51. Political participation and persecution abuses

53. Bringing Women’s Rights into Mainstream Human Rights

54. Respecting Cultural Diversity While Promoting Universal Human Rights

56. Lack of women’s awareness of that machinery that would empower them

57. CEDAW committee monitors compliance with the conventions

58. But has not yet declared any government in violation of women’s human rights

59. Very little litigation Nationally & internationally concerning the violation of women’s human rights

60. Ideological resistance to human rights for women in local customs & laws

61. Talk about rights is not meaningful in some cultures

62. Viewed as another tool of the West to eradicate indigenous cultures

64. The creation of specialized bodies for addressing women’s issues within the UN has contributed to their marginalization. So mainstream organs of the UN such as CHR have paid little attention to women’s human rights violation.

65. The specialized bodies are under funded.

67. Claims for universality are rejected as imperialistic & a way to uphold Western economic interests.

68. Cultural diversity and human rights must be balanced.

69. Cultural relativism is the notion that rights and wrong are determined culturally.

70. Radical Cultural relativists suggest that Western condemnations of gender discrimination in other regions are insensitive and ethnocentric & are a version of cultural imperialism

72. When pressured about international HR, repressive government often hide behind insincere claim of Cultural relativism as a way to remove the pressure