The Factors and Grounds of the Development of International Documents Related to Women's Rights in the Twentieth Century

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Department of Jurisprudence and Law, Faculty of Islamic Sciences and Knowledge, University of Quran and Hadith, Qom, Iran

10.22034/ijwf.2024.17280.2170

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A brief look at the international documents related to women's rights that were ratified in the twentieth century reveals a gradual increase in these documents and a change in the substance of their subjects. Given the important role of identifying the factors and grounds for the quantitative growth and substantive development of international documents related to women's rights during this period, this research was conducted using an analytical-documentary method with the aim of identifying the factors and grounds for the development of international documents related to women's rights, explaining how the Islamic system took a stance toward these documents, and predicting the future developments of these documents. The findings indicated that the most important factors and grounds for the quantitative growth and substantive development of international documents related to women's rights in the twentieth century are as follows: the dominance of discourse based on the recognition of the inherent dignity and equal rights of all human beings in the continuation of modern western thinking on international documents related to women's rights; the establishment of the undisputed dominance and sovereignty of the United States over the global capitalist system and its transformation into a political, economic, and military superpower; Also, UN-affiliated institutions being influenced by the trends outside the organization that pursue women's rights according to American standards and deny any gender differences between men and women.
 

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