Hastings Women’s Law Journal Volume 5 | Number 2 Article 6 6-1-1994 Women are Human: Gender-Based Persecution Is a Human Rights Violation Against Women Priscilla F. Warren Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hwlj Recommended Citation Priscilla F. Warren, Women are Human: Gender-Based Persecution Is a Human Rights Violation Against Women, 5 Hastings Women's L.J. 281 (1994). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hwlj/vol5/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Women’s Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Women Are Human: Gender-Based Persecution Is A Human Rights Violation Against Women Priscilla F. Warren * The woman who demands her human rights is not a supplicant or a seeker of charity, but a person with dignity demanding a just outcome according to widely accepted criteria of fairness. 1 In an era of seemingly endless discussions of human rights and human rights violations, women are often singled-out as targets solely because they are women. For example: in Iran, a fifty-five year old woman, her arms full of groceries, was arrested and imprisoned where she received eighty lashes with a whip because her head scarf had slipped back from her forehead and a lock of her hair was showing;2 in Pakistan, a fifty-five year old grandmother, arrested and imprisoned for opening