Components of a Comprehensive Plan

[Sophia]

I am new to this group and have been looking over the documents on the
group's web page. I would like to comment on "Components of a
Comprehensive Plan."

Among other human interactions which make peace difficult are the
"isms" and we have just recently seen this in the Uzbek-Tajyk
conflict. My research interests in the structure and dynamics of
oppression bring me to comment on the inclusion of the UN Declaration
of Human Rights in the components of a comprehensive plan. The UN
Human Rights do not, with very few exceptions, protect the human
rights of women worldwide. It would make more sense to include in the
comprehensive components, a serious rewriting and updating of the
Human Rights of the UN. The United Nations has found much the same,
i.e., the gendered nature of the Human Rights found in the
Declaratioin, and thus has created the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
http://un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/convention.htm.

If anyone is interested in the analysis of the gendered nature of the
UN Declaration, you can contact me and I am happy to provide the text
of such an analysis. Or, one could read Catharine MacKinnon's _Are
Women Human Yet?_

[Peter Bergel]

You are certainly right, Sophia, that women's rights and environmental
rights are among the items not adequately addressed by the UN
Declaration. However, what is remarkable about that document is:
1. That it exists at all.
2. That it has been endorsed by practically every nation on earth.
3. That, having been written in 1948, it includes as much excellent
stuff as it does.

I don't think we need to call for a rewrite, but more of an updating
of the document to include the items you noted and others that others
may consider to be lacking. However, it should give us all hope that
the world was able to once create and approve such a visionary
document. It also indicates to us that we need to in our strategy not
only creation of a new vision, but mechanisms to keep the process of
realizing the vision on track.

Peter Bergel

On Jun 26, 4:39 pm, Sophia <lrobe...@oregonstate.edu> wrote:
> I am new to this group and have been looking over the documents on the
> group's web page.  I would like to comment on "Components of a
> Comprehensive Plan."
>
> Among other human interactions which make peace difficult are the
> "isms" and we have just recently seen this in the Uzbek-Tajyk
> conflict.  My research interests in the structure and dynamics of
> oppression bring me to comment on the inclusion of the UN Declaration
> of Human Rights in the components of a comprehensive plan.   The UN
> Human Rights do not, with very few exceptions, protect the human
> rights of women worldwide.  It would make more sense to include in the
> comprehensive components, a serious rewriting and updating of the
> Human Rights of the UN.  The United Nations has found much the same,
> i.e., the gendered nature of the Human Rights found in the
> Declaratioin, and thus has created the Convention on the Elimination

> of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.http://un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/convention.htm.