Women of rights: the influence of women on the concept of human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Gender; Human Rights; UN
The writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 (UDHR) often neglected minority groups in society and reinforced the stigma of a Western and sexist document, directly impacting the constitution of the concept of human rights. From another perspective of analysis of the construction of the UDHR, highlighting the image of women in this history brings a different look at how they were silenced despite having important roles for different constructions. Following this premise, the research is developed with the idea of analyzing and highlighting the importance of women's participation in the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how their thinking influenced the expansion of the concept of human rights. Analyzing the construction of the concept through the women who participated in the meetings and in the formulation of the document, having them as a current of investigation, care is taken to observe what was behind their discourse, such as their nationalities, their ethnicities and their religions. , for example.