Posted by sabina on January 26, 2010
Charlotte Bunch Credit:Nick Romanenko
One year after U.S. President Barack Obama’s inauguration, and looking at his first State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 27, women’s rights groups recognise some progress has been made in terms of advancing an agenda for women’s rights around the world. But many challenges remain, starting from the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) — though the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to recommend formal endorsement of CEDAW in 2002, the United States remain the only country in the Western hemisphere that has not ratified the treaty.
In this interview published by IPS, Charlotte Bunch, founding director of the Center for Global Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University, spoke about her assessment of the U.S. president’s achievements, and what remains to be done. More »
Posted by admin on December 21, 2009
Credit: CEDAW
In this special podcast you will hear of:
* Three generations of women in Liberia, reflecting on women’s rights.
* How CEDAW is helping nationalize women’s rights in Egypt.
* The continuing struggle for HIV positive women to gain access to medication in South Africa
* Uganda’s Ambiguous stand on women’s rights
* How Liberian women still can’t claim their rights in court
* and how South Africa women turn their kitchens into “gourmet” restaurants.
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Posted by sabina on December 18, 2009
Quilt made by women of Kyrgztan. (Unifem)
Ask the woman sitting next to you in the bus, train, plane, taxi-brousse or donkey cart what is CEDAW, and most probably you will draw a blank look. C’est quoi?
Yet CEDAW - Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - has likely impacted on her life and her daughters, if she has any, in many ways, from pension and inheritance rights to the passport they hold.
Read the CEDAW Birthday post on GENDER MASALA: Notes on gender - A spicy mix by Mercedes Sayagues.
Posted by admin on December 15, 2009
Nezha Guessouss / Credit:Bomoon Lee/IPS
Liza Jansen interviews NEZHA GUESSOUSS, former member of the Morocco Family Law Reform Commission
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14 (IPS) - Five years ago, Morocco amended its family law to promote the idea of equality between men and women. More »
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Posted by sabina on December 14, 2009
Credit: Samantha Smit/IPS
Dec 14, 2009 - In this week’s podcast you will hear of:
* a young girl’s daily struggle to survive…
* how South Africa’s progressive gender laws only live on paper
* and how changes to the law in Egypt are slowly empowering women.
Posted by admin on December 11, 2009
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (IPS) - A landmark U.N. treaty on women’s rights, which will be 30 years old next week, is in danger of being politically undermined by a slew of reservations by 22 countries seeking exemptions from some of the convention’s legal obligations.
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Posted by admin on December 9, 2009
Silvia Pimentel / Credit: Courtesy of Fernanda Pasquariello Monteiro
Fabiana Frayssinet interviews SILVIA PIMENTEL, CEDAW Committee member
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 8 (IPS) - The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which turns 30 on Dec. 18, has brought greater global awareness of women’s rights and been instrumental in the huge strides made towards ending discrimination and inequality in the world.
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Posted by admin on December 8, 2009
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gives the opening remarks/ Credit: Bomoon Lee/IPS
Women all over the world are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). UNIFEM organised a special event in New York, opened by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who declared that “The Convention is one of the most successful human rights treaties ever.”
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Posted by admin on December 7, 2009
By Liza Jansen
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4 (IPS) - Activists and U.N. officials celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) say the treaty has been an increasingly successful tool for challenging discriminatory laws and battling violence against women’s and girls.
“The CEDAW Convention is at the core of our global mission of peace, development and human rights,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the opening of CEDAW’s 30th anniversary event in New York Thursday. “The Convention is one of the most successful human rights treaties ever.” More »
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Posted by sabina on December 3, 2009
Sujata Manohar Credit:Bomoon Lee/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2 (IPS) - The 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) this month has brought women’s rights champions from around the world to the United Nations to share their success stories. One is Sujata Manohar, who helped create a national law in India that bars sexual harassment in the workplace.
“Some people believe the traditional way of life is better, but they are not in the majority and there is a clear move towards elimination of all kinds of discrimination,” says Manohar, a Supreme Court justice.
CEDAW, adopted in December 1979 by the U.N. General Assembly, is an international human rights treaty exclusively devoted to gender equality and is often described as an international bill of rights for women.
The Convention consists of 30 articles defining discrimination against women and an agenda for national action to end such discrimination. More »
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