Argumentative Essay On Women And Human Rights

ABSTACT

According to great Nelson Mandela ‘To deny people their Human Rights is to challenge their very humanity’ In other words Human Rights are rights inherent to all human beings despite their gender, nationality, place of residency, sex, ethnicity, religion, colour or and other categorization. Thus, Human Rights are non-discriminatory and all human beings are entitled to Human Rights. But the question is whether all human beings experience Human Rights equally throughout the world. The primary cause for the denial attitude of people on majority side is that they do not accept minorities as fellow human beings at par with them. Speaking from the gender perspective the trend is seen in such a way that from the ancient times till the medieval period the ‘Men’ enjoyed the privileges in the society as the most superior species of the entire mankind. It is only in the modern times the ‘Women’ are treated or to be more précised accepted as equal with men. In the contemporary trend we can witness the struggle of Transgenders for the existence and acceptance in the society dominated by stereotype genders the male and female.

In spite of this even today the existence of the Transgenders or Third gender is not taken sensibly where it compels the Transgenders to lurk in an underprivileged corner.

The author in this paper titled: “Understanding the Transgenders” discusses on the violation of Human Rights pertaining to Transgenders, stigma, discrimination and violence faced by Transgenders besides reforms in their favour and available social & legal protections to the community.

INTRODUCTION

As it is important to realize the issues of Transgenders it will be helpful to look at few basic concepts for better