Looking at the history of social movements in the 20th Century, one realizes that increasingly women service the various social and economic movements mostly as workers and volunteers but not as its leaders. In the next phase, which, I believe, is the human rights revolution, women must lead and set the agenda of this movement. Women must lead the revolution with a new holistic vision of the universality and indivisibility of human rights for all. …
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…or the developers. We must deeply understand how human rights are relevant to our lives, and ensure that politicians make our concerns their concerns. Human rights education will give us the language to remove political dogma and empower us with a viable human rights analysis. It is we women who must lead this human rights revolution for the benefit of society as a whole, claiming our human rights to be human and to be women.