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Its a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesnt create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the worlds population. Christiane Amanpour, from the foreword The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East where the Arab Spring raised high hopes, but the political revolutions are so far insufficient to guarantee progress. Around the world, women and girls are trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery, trapped in conflict zones where rape is a weapon of war, prevented from attending school, and kept from making deeply personal choices in their private lives, such as whom and when to marry. In many countries, women are second-class citizens by law. In others, religion and traditions block freedoms such as the right to work, study or access health care. Even in the United States, women who are victims of sexual violence often do not see their attackers brought to justice. More than 30 writersNobel Prize laureates, leading activists, top policymakers, and former victimshave contributed to this anthology. Drawing from their rich personal experiences, they tackle some of the toughest questions and offer bold new approaches to problems affecting hundreds of millions of women. This volume is indispensable reading, providing thoughtful analysis from a never-before assembled group of advocates. It shows that the fight for womens equality is far from over. As Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate says, Women are not free anywhere in this world until all women in the world are free.

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Copyright 2012 by Minky Worden
Individual chapters 2012 by each author

A Seven Stories Press First Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The unfinished revolution : voices from the global fight for womens rights / edited by Minky Worden.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-60980-388-9
1. Womens rights. I. Worden, Minky.
HQ1236.U49 2012
305.42dc23

2011052738

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v3.1

For Cynthia Brown,

who pushed the human rights movement to recognize and defend womens rights,

who never succumbed to the professional temptations of convention and convenience,

and whose fierce intellect, golden pen, and wise ways inspire us all.

Contents
FOREWORD
Christiane Amanpour
A Historic Moment for Womens Rights
INTRODUCTION
Minky Worden
Revolutions and Rights
PART 1
A REVOLUTION IN THINKING:
WOMENS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
CHAPTER 1
Ellen Chesler
The Shoulders We Stand On: Eleanor Roosevelt and Roots of the Womens Rights Revolution
CHAPTER 2
Charlotte Bunch
How Womens Rights Became Recognized as Human Rights
CHAPTER 3
Isobel Coleman
Technologys Quiet Revolution for Women
PART 2
REVOLUTIONS AND TRANSITIONS
CHAPTER 4
Shirin Ebadi
Islamic Law and the Revolution Against Women
CHAPTER 5
Sussan Tahmasebi
A Civil Society-Led Revolution? Promoting Civil Society and Womens Rights in the Middle East
CHAPTER 6
Esraa Abdel Fattah with Sarah J. Robbins
After the Arab Spring, Mobilizing for Change in Egypt
CHAPTER 7
Samer Muscati
Women in Iraq: Losing Ground
CHAPTER 8
Christoph Wilcke
Saudi Womens Struggle
PART 3
CONFLICT ZONES
CHAPTER 9
Jody Williams
Devastating Remnants of War: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls
CHAPTER 10
Dr. Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins
Under Siege in Somalia
CHAPTER 11
Anneke Van Woudenberg
Confronting Rape as a Weapon of War in theDemocratic Republic of Congo
CHAPTER 12
Georgette Gagnon
I Was Sold Twice: Harmful Traditional Practices in Afghanistan
CHAPTER 13
Rachel Reid
Letters in the Night: Closing Space for Women and Girls in Afghanistan
PART 4
THE ECONOMIES OF RIGHTS: EDUCATION, WORK, AND PROPERTY
CHAPTER 14
Janet Walsh
Unequal in Africa: How Property Rights Can Empower Women
CHAPTER 15
Nisha Varia
Cleaning House: The Growing Movement for Domestic Workers Rights
CHAPTER 16
Mark P. Lagon
Ending Trafficking of Women and Girls
CHAPTER 17
Elaine Pearson
Do No Harm: Post-Trafficking Abuses
PART 5
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
CHAPTER 18
Sarah Tofte
A Needed Revolution: Testing Rape Kits and US Justice
CHAPTER 19
Meghan Rhoad
Violence Against Immigrant Women in the United States
CHAPTER 20
Gauri van Gulik
Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Europe
PART 6
WOMEN AND HEALTH
CHAPTER 21
Aruna Kashyap
Maternal Mortality: Ending Needless Deaths in Childbirth
CHAPTER 22
Nadya Khalife
Lasting Wounds: Female Genital Mutilation
CHAPTER 23
Agnes Odhiambo
Fistula: Giving Birth and Living Death in Africa
CHAPTER 24
Marianne Mollmann
Fatal Consequences: Women, Abortion, and Power in Latin America
PART 7
POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS AND HARMFUL TRADITIONS
CHAPTER 25
Sharon K. Hom
Claiming Womens Rights in China
CHAPTER 26
Sheridan Prasso
A Long March for Womens Rights in China
CHAPTER 27
Graa Machel and Mary Robinson
Girls Not Brides
CHAPTER 28
Judith Sunderland
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Dont: Religious Dress and Womens Rights
PART 8
THE NEXT FRONTIER: A ROAD MAP TO RIGHTS
CHAPTER 29
Gara LaMarche
Funding an Unfinished Revolution
CHAPTER 30
Liesl Gerntholtz
The Challenge of Changing the World for Women
AFTERWORD
Dorothy Q. Thomas
The Revolution Continues
LIST OF ACRONYMS USED IN THIS BOOK
ACLUAmerican Civil Liberties Union
CARMMACampaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality
CEDAWConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
CSWCommission on the Status of Women
FDLRDemocratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
FGMfemale genital mutilation
ICEUSImmigration and Customs Enforcement
ICCPRInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
ICERDInternational Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
ICESRInternational Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
ICRCInternational Committee for the Red Cross
ICRWInternational Center for Research on Women
ILOInternational Labor Organization
LGBTlesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community
MDGMillennium Development Goals
NGOnon-governmental organization
NSHRNational Society for Human Rights
PRCPeoples Republic of China
UDHRUniversal Declaration of Human Rights
UNAMAUnited Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
UNDPUnited Nations Development Program
UNESCOUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNFPAUnited Nations Population Fund
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