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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 258</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">WHY ARE THE WOMEN IN CONSERVATIVE
SOCIETIES SO CAVALIERLY EXPENDABLE?</span></b><span style="color:black"> (S.
Lewis) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Human rights provide the
critical guidance in identifying the underlying and structural causes of
development problems which typically relate to persistent patterns of
disempowerment, discrimination, exclusion and multiple human rights violations. These
deeper causes explain why women and other groups are left behind in the
development process and why development policies must address broader human rights issues
rather than simply deliver a set of technical interventions that aim at
improving only certain aspects of women’s problems.<span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I would say that a number of
‘iron laws’ apply to the disadvantaged human rights situation of women. I here propose ten
of them to the reader:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">For the full 10 iron laws, go to:</span></p><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1kd">http://wp.me/plAxa-1kd</a> </div>
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