Human rights for specific categories are never inclusive.
You have to prove discrimination on the basis of race to avail yourself of the protection of the 1966 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
You have to be a woman to avail yourself of the 1981 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
(The basis of discrimination is sex, not gender).
You have to be a child to avail yourself of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Child = under 18 years old).
You have to be a migrant to avail yourself of the 1990 Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
You have to be disabled to avail yourself of the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
All these human rights treaties are exclusionary. And with good reason. Because the international community has recognised that these groups need specific rights. If they were 'inclusive' they would not fulfil their objective. They would fail to protect the target groups.
So when they accuse women of not being inclusive, remember that if we are, we are doing our job and we are respecting international human rights treaty standards.
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