Feminism and Cultural Relativism in Human Rights Discourse: Sex-determi

Feminism and Cultural Relativism in man Rights Discourse wake up-determination Test in IndiaABSTRACT Feminists and cultural relativists are highly critical of valet de chambre rights level if their criticisms have taken two diametrically opposed sides. This has created a engagement between the two groups. In this paper, I summarize the views of feminists and cultural relativists and hence show that there are many similarities between them despite their differences, for they theatrical role a common ground concerning human rights conversation. Based on the similarities, I believe that both must give together on this point by making changes in an inclusive way with regard to human rights violations. This is true not only at the planetary level exclusively also at national levels. To demonstrate this, I analyze the swerve of the sex-determination test in India and show that if feminists and cultural relativists joined hands, then the line of work of aborting female fetuses in India (due to cultural conditioning and leading to the larger hassle of adverse sex ratios) could be resolved. I conclude by proposing that medical technology could be channeled in the direction of progress if feminists and cultural relativists work jointly for the promotion of womens rights by recognizing different voices of women across race, class, age, culture, sexual orientation and wealth. Recently, during the earthly concern conferences organized by United Nations in Vienna, Cairo and Beijing, the human rights discourse has taken different forms and have created bitter differences among different camps. In these international conferences, feminists claim victory over cultural relativists as feminists were able to reaffirm womens human rights. (1) Feminists and cultural relativists are the... ...(5) See Claude Ake, The African Context of Human Rights, Africa Today, Vol. 32, number 5 (1987)(6) Hilary Charlesworth, What are Womens International Human Rights?, Human Rights of Women, supra note 25, at 617.(7) See Shashi Tharoo, The Universality of Human Rights and their Relevance to product Countries, Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 142 (1990(8) See Radhika Balakrishnan, The affectionate Context of Sex Selection and the Politics of Abortion in India, Power and Decision The Social Control of Reproduction, by Gita Sen and Rachel C. Snow, 266-283 Amartya Sen, The Economics of Life and Death, Scientific American, (May), 40-47.(9) See the growth of population chart in Amulya Ratna Nanda, nosecount of India, 1991, Series-1, Registrar General & Census Commisioner, India, Statement 2, 21.(10) Bombay Case Reporter, 203, (1988) 2-7.