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According to Suzannah Weiss, the slogan, "My body, my choice" is a feminist idea which can be applicable to women's reproductive rights and other women's rights issues. [12] It is also the opposite to treating women's bodies like property, and asserts the importance of a culture of consent. [12]
The campaign sold T-shirts stating "women's rights are human rights" at her campaign store, in reference to her speech. [20] The campaign also sold a bag that featured the full phrase "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights"; on the bag it was shown in six languages. [21]
Prior to that, the slogan was also used by women's rights movements in a number of international gatherings. [8] For example, on 25 November 2015 it was used in gatherings held to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in several European countries. [9]
The National Women's Law Center noted that "TERFs often self-identify as 'gender critical' or as an 'adult human female.' They believe in 'sex-based rights', 'LGB rights', and 'protecting women and girls'; they call trans people 'trans rights activists', 'the trans lobby', 'the trans debate', and call trans women 'TIMs' (Trans Identified Males ...
Article 8 calls on states to combat all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of prostitution of women. Article 9 affirms an equal right to education regardless of gender. Article 10 calls for equal rights in the workplace, including non-discrimination in employment, equal pay for equal work, and paid maternity leave.
"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [1] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim. [2]
The 1997 Campaign was Demand Human Rights in the Home and the World, which was working towards the 1998 Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights. [12] The theme for the campaign in 1998 was Building a Culture of Respect for Human Rights. [13] The 1999 campaign theme was entitled Fulfilling the Promise of Freedom from Violence. [14]
CEDAW is a global human rights treaty that should be incorporated into national law as the highest standard for women's rights. It requires the UN Member States that have ratified it (185 to date) to set in place mechanisms to fully realize women's rights.