Applicability of the Human Rights Model to Address Concerns and the Status of Women

While the problems that women face worldwide are partly universal in character, they also vary in relation to regional and cultural contexts. Addressing women's human rights at a universal level forms therefore a huge and complex challenge for international organizations and public diplomacy. This study pinpoints a number of problems, limits and challenges that relate to the applicability of the human rights model as a tool to address women's concerns particularly in four selected areas: violence against women, trafficking in and prostitution of women, and women's concerns relating to health, reproduction and sexuality as well as to decision-making at the personal and societal levels.