ABSTRACT
The movement for women's human rights comprises women's rights activists, efforts to use the human rights framework to promote the achievement of women's rights in the interrelated areas of political, civil, economic, social, and cultural rights. Women's human rights activists have come to recognize the power of the international human rights framework, which lends legitimacy to political demands, since it is already accepted by most governments and brings with it established protocols. The Global Campaign's buttons declaring that "Women's Rights Are Human Rights" were seen on many official delegates' lapels. In 1991, this period served to launch a worldwide petition drive, initially cosponsored by the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC), the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), and the International YWCA. From the groundswell of women's mobilization around human rights issues at the local level, to the inclusion of women's human rights within the Vienna Declaration, a global movement for women's human rights has definitively taken shape.
