Devaki Jain raises the critical question of how to support the UN while maintaining national sovereignty when dealing with the human rights framework. She proposes this as a crucial and complex question to consider for global governance, a key issue of UN intergovernmental global events such as...

Despite great leaps in uncovering of knowledge, as well as extraordinarily skillful strategizing, neither has the value of women’s advisories to public policy been recognized; nor have the tools been adequate to achieve that recognition. There are in built difficulties, problematiques, in...

Devaki Jain describes some ground level situations, reviews and dialogues, around the issue of child rights and women's rights, and raises some questions about the frameworks which are currently being used. She argues that women's rights and child rights are a theme that needs to be addressed...