Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 59
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Human rights are universal in the sense that everyone is entitled to have their rights respected, protected and fulfilled no matter who they are or where they reside. Universality renders geographic location and social position impermissible bases on which to deny human rights, including the right to be free from violence. The "gendered theorization of human rights," incorporates "an intersectional approach to race, class, gender, sexuality and nation" where "no one right can be easily broken down into a singular issue, as rights are always already constituted through the social structural relations of multiple positionalities."
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences