Do human rights work? How do they work? Have women benefited? What part does education play in human rights? These are the issues examined in this stimulating book. It brings together European, international and global Conventions on human rights, the rights of women, the users and uses of education, and sets them in their wider context. In a mere 50 years, principles, institutions and policies of human rights have been developed worlwide and this book gives an insight into how this has been done, the successes and the failures, up to the Beijing Conference and beyond. Whose Human Rights? is a must for everyone who is interested in Human Rights, education or Women's Studies.