Whose Universe? Women and Universal Human Rights. The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, signed into effect by the UN in
1948, was supposed to take care of it all. But since then, the
world has answered with one bill after the next filling in the
gaps missed by the Declaration and contesting the alleged Euro-
centricity of the 30 articles. Now there are the Cairo Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, the Convention on
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW), the newly UN-signed Declaration of Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, and many more from various regional and identity
groups. I'm currently writing an academic paper on the
intersections among women's rights, indigenous rights and
environmental rights. I'd love to hear your thoughts and plan to
pose a serious of questions about human rights in this thread
(so please subscribe to the RSS Feed :). First off... Do you
think there can be such a thing as universal human rights that
fit the needs of every gender, race, class, r