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Theresa "Terry" McGovern, J.D., is a professor of population and family health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She directs the Health and Human Rights Certificate and teaches human rights and environmental justice. From 2006 to 2012, McGovern was senior program officer of the HIV/AIDS Human Rights in the Gender Rights and Equality Program at the Ford Foundation, managing programming in the U.S. and globally.

Women’s Rights on Agenda of U.N. from the Start

By Ellen Chesler & Terry McGovern ● Politics ● March 21, 2016

There’s been a strong push to add women’s rights to the international human rights agenda since the U.N. was founded. Ellen Chesler and Terry McGovern provide a historical perspective in this excerpt from their book “Women and Girls Rising.”

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Women’s Rights on Agenda of U.N. from the Start