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Culture versus Rights Dualism: A myth or a reality?

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Women's human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin Ertürk argues that this is a false dualism, which serves both private patriarchy and public patriarchy of neo-liberal globalization.

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  1. www.un.org/womenwatch/directory/UN_conferences_meetings_special_days_40.htm.

  2. www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/.

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*This article is based on a presentation by the author at the AWID Forum 2012, 19–22 April Istanbul. It was first published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net).

Demystifies the claim that gender justice is a cultural not a rights issue

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Ertürk, Y. Culture versus Rights Dualism: A myth or a reality?. Development 55, 273–276 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2012.25

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