Illiteracy, infanticide, sexual abuse and teenage pregnancies are some of the problems facing women. Assessing Feminist Doubts About Rights. Refugee Women and the Imperative of Categories. The PFA can effectively be implemented by making a major shift in the priorities of governments and individuals and a significant redeployment of human and financial resources. No change on the home front.
Police are indifferent and blame women for domestic violence.
Women prefer to go to recently eslished victim support centers. While human rights standards are supposedly applied by international organizations in aiding developing countries there, it is clear that such 'standards' have done nothing to better the lot of women in these societies. Providing the right to participate in development is not the same thing as ensuring human rights, because it does not take into account the rights of the most oppressed, the women. A World of Widows . Zed Books, London.