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Women and Social Justice, 20th Century Review

Can focusing on the rights of a specific group result in their reduction? This paper examines human rights in general through the prism of women's rights. We look at the most important documents protecting human rights and ask the following questions: How are women's rights represented in them? Why has democracy not yet solved the problems of social inequality, discrimination and exclusion of persons belonging to particular racial, ethnic, national and other minority groups? Where do the rights of one person or group end, and the rights of the other person or group begin. In this context, Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is one of the most important documents that promotes women's rights and social justice in our society. We examine the three selected historical milestones in the struggle for women's rights: the suffragette movement which birthed the demands for the rights of equal political participation and education, the seventies of the twentieth century as the culmination of the second wave of feminism, and the end of the century when the feminist movement focused on determining the definition of sex and gender, while the struggle against the domination of the "other" is relegated to the background.

human rights ; social justice ; women's rights ; three historical milestones

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