Women's Empowerment in UN Documents Neither a Safe Haven Nor a Pandora's Box: Need for A Holistic Perspective

This article is a critique on the UN – promoted concept of women’s empowerment which is presented in the international instrument of women’s rights, called Platform for Action, (1995) and which is reviewed since then for every five years. It is asserted in the article that though women’s empowerment...

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Main Author: Kausar, Zeenath (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2022
In: International journal of islamic thought
Year: 2022, Volume: 21, Pages: 128-136
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