Do human rights work? How do they work? Have women benefitted? What part does education play in human rights? These are the issues examined in this book. It brings together European, international and global Conventions on human rights, the rights of women, the users and the 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 worldwide. This book gives an insight into how this has been done, the successes and the failures, up to the Beijing Conference and beyond.