The modern human rights system is based on a series of legally binding international treaties that make use of principles of ethics and social justice many of which are directly relevant to population issues and reproductive health. Agencies throughout the United Nations system are adopting a right...
As for the position that women should abandon theories of rights and embrace an ethic that emphasizes care: women who made this choice would not so much liberate themselves from "the patriarchy" as they would conform to its representation of women as emotional, subjective and irrational. There ...