GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE ON GENDER EQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION
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https://doi.org/10.53555/e5534171Keywords:
Gender equality, human rights law, legal frameworks, gender discrimination, judicial activism, policy enforcementAbstract
The fundamental right of gender equality in international human rights law continues to face restrictions from legal and institutional factors together with cultural obstacles. The research reviews how law safeguarding equality between male and female evolved through United Nations documents starting with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) leading to Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) before culminating in the Beijing Declaration. The examination investigates regional human rights instruments through the ECHR plus the Maputo Protocol together with the Belém do Pará Convention while analyzing their ability to stop gender-specific discriminatory acts. The evaluation of different countries' legal frameworks reveals inconsistent policy execution patterns where judicial action and constitutional defense systems lead to the most significant development progress. Gender justice faces constant obstacles which stem from poor legal enforcement together with discriminatory practices across gender and political barriers to justice. Image verification demonstrates why law enforcement requires better implementation and gender-oriented policies and structural reforms to close the disparity between established rights and true equality. The advancement of gender equality depends on intersectionality research and above all on fortified digital rights shields and appropriate solutions against new forms of gender discrimination in law.
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