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CEDAW in Action in Southeast Asia
Valuable Voices from the Ground - NGOs and the Shadow Reporting Process
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (the CEDAW Committee) places great value on hearing from women themselves about the situation in their countries. They recognise the critical role that civil society plays in raising awareness about the Convention, in helping to monitor state obligations, and in highlighting some of the most pressing women’s human rights concerns in their countries, as these are being experienced in everyday life by women on the ground. [read more...]
NGO Efforts to Implement CEDAW in Southeast Asia
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or CEDAW for short, can be a difficult set of principles and guidelines to grasp; a framework for promoting gender equality and women’s rights that can be complex and often abstract – words on paper that don’t easily translate into concrete realities on the ground. [read more...]
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