4.3.3 Women's rights

Women's rights are the fundamental human rights enshrined by the United Nations for every human being on the planet in 1948. These rights include the right to live free from violence, slavery and discrimination; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn a fair and equal pay.

As the now-famous saying goes, "women's rights are human rights." That is, women are entitled to all these rights. However, women and girls are still denied them almost everywhere around the world, often simply because of their gender.

Winning women's rights is more than giving any individual woman or girl opportunities; it is also about changing how countries and communities work. It includes altering legislation and policies, winning hearts and minds, and investing in organizations and movements of powerful women.

Women’s rights and the Global Goals

The UN Millennium Development Goals set particular objectives for poverty reduction, including objectives for enhanced gender equality in schooling, employment and representation. It was discovered by UN Women that progress has been uneven. Overall, there are now more females at college and at job. Yet women are still more probable to be out of college than boys (especially in high school). And while there has been an increase in the amount of females in elected office, they are still low percentage of parliamentarians. In many fields not addressed in the Millennium Goals, moreover, women's rights stay at risk–from violence against women to sexual and reproductive rights. And females who, because of their race, caste, sexuality, earnings, or place, are already marginalized see the fewest benefits.

The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hold true promise to develop progress in women's rights, including a particular objective for gender equality (Goal 5). Goal 5 is broader than the last sex objective and involves objectives to end gender-based violence, eliminate child marriage, and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health. It also involves equal access to education, increasing financial possibilities for females, and decreasing the burden on females and girls of unpaid care work. It is now up to us all to hold governments responsible for their obligations and to ensure that the objectives are fulfilled. It will be critical to achievement to involve females–and fund grassroots women's groups ' alternatives.

In the context of Nepal there are so many institutions in behave of Women's Right. They are doing so many programs and events. In spite of so many programs and events, government is making provisions in the law, constitution also have the provisions for empowering women. The grass level of our society must be changed, the concept of people towards the women must be changed. The gender discrimination should be eliminated from the mind of the people not only the pages of the low.