Human Rights Protection for Women in Bone Regency

This study was based on thoughts that women are always be the object of unjustified oppression making a gender gap in all aspect of their life. This is the critical point for the researcher to investigate how human rights protect women's rights especially in Bone Regency. The objectives of the study are (1) to discover human rights violation towards women in Bone; (2) the human rights protection that able to be given towards women in Bone; (3) obstacles in providing human rights protection towards women in Bone. This study was a normative empirical study. The data consisted of primary and secondary data collected by using interviews, documentations, and observation. The data then analyzed using qualitative technique. The result of the study showed that the human rights violation towards women were the discrimination, exploitation, subordination, and physical abuses. The law protection assurance was based on the prevailing regulations regarding the violence of human rights. The obstacles in providing law protection towards women were society's attitudes which were based on gender ideology existed in the culture of Buginese as well as siri as society's concealment.