EIRP Proceedings, Vol 10 (2015)

Abstract

Human rights and their protection represent the regulation object of a major part of all the legal rules encompassing the international public law. The Members efforts to protect women's rights and to promote gender equality have resulted in the adoption of important documents, fundamental to all mankind. In light of these international regulations, States have assumed obligations and they have created mechanisms to achieve them. Through the analytical approach we have highlighted the activities of the United Nations and international bodies for protecting women's rights and gender equality in all sectors of public and private life. In preparing this article we used as research methods the analysis of problems generated by the subject in question with reference to the doctrinal views expressed in the Treaties and specialized articles, documentary research, interpretation of legal norms in the field.