Global Feminism and Human Rights: A Critical Perspective

Abstract

This paper critically examines the relationship between global feminism, and human rights, highlighting the ways that diverse political, social, and cultural circumstances stimulus feminist movements around the world, how feminist conceptions that are centred on the West how it may struggle with regional movements in the Global, frequently ignoring the particular difficulties that women encounter in post-colonial, indigenous, and emerging nations through distinct historical perspectives derived from colonialism’s legacy, global feminists embrace global problems, and launch campaigns aimed at overthrowing what they claim are the prevailing patriarchal systems in the world today. It indorses a more inclusive, cross-cultural approach by highlighting the implication of intersectionality in tackling human rights breaches such gender-based violence, human trafficking, and reproductive rights, it highlights grassroots feminist efforts, and movements, and their contributions to a localized meaning of human rights the relationship between human rights rhetoric, and global feminist frameworks, advocating for a more cultured comprehension of the varied experiences of women, a reconsideration of global feminism that is more sensitive to the particular political, social, and cultural environments in which the fight for women’s rights takes place. It makes the case that a truly global feminist movement needs to give intersectionality top priority, honour regional styles of activity, and concentrate on the larger structural injustices that serve as the foundation for human rights abuses. Global feminism can only effectively contribute to the attainment of human rights for all women by taking such an open and flexible approach and their struggles for justice and equality.