Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
While human rights law in its current form is less than fifty years old, the issues that it grapples with are much, much older. People oftentimes dismiss religion or religious norms as being out of date, close-minded, or old-fashioned, and label religious views as discriminatory in theory or even in practice. In reality, religions have been dealing with human rights issues since ancient times, and in some ways have laid the groundwork for the very modern discussions that have supplanted them. The answers that religions give, therefore, deserve at the very least a careful and respectful analysis before they are callously or carelessly cast aside or labeled as one-dimensional and discriminatory towards any particular group. As an example, this article examines the State of Israel’s controversial and oft-challenged qualifications to CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) and attempts to cast them in a new light of understanding, i.e. in light of feminist critiques of the very structure of CEDAW itself.
Recommended Citation
Mark Goldfeder, Rights, Reservations, and Religion; International Human Rights Law and the Status of Women, 6 CRIT 43 (Winter 2012).
Source Publication
Idaho Critical Legal Studies Journal