Abstract:

This study discusses the problem of women rights in the 21st century in terms of human rights. Though the matter of human rights has been studied since very ancient times, it can be said that the discourse of human rights which is common today was established in the 19th century. The discourse of human rights regards the perception of citizenship as the main reference point. We can make mention of three center lines of the discourse of human rights. These are civil rights, freedom of speech and social rights.  Civil rights can be sorted as individual freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of possession and contract and the right of justice. While the political rights express the rights of taking part in the political decision making process as voters and electees, social rights include a set of rights ranging from having the rights within the bounds of the standards of the society such as economic welfare social security, to the right of being able to live as a civilized individual. It is obvious that the age long struggle for women rights cannot be dissociated from that of human rights. However, nowadays this context has been disregarded and women rights have been handled as isolated from general rights. Reevaluation of feminist theory and the situation of women studies today and dealing with the matter in terms of a more general concept of human rights constitute the main axis of this study    

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