NGO
and CESCR
Updates
In July 2007, three IWRAW Asia Pacific resource persons attended
the United Nations Open Ended Working (OEWG) group on an Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social, Cultural
Rights (OP-ICESCR).
Ensuring
an IWRAW Asia Pacific presence at the United Nations Open Ended
Working Group (OEWG) is only one part of enhancing the realisation
of economic, social and cultural rights for women but it is a very
important part. It offers the opportunity to monitor state action
at the international level and to educate states on the realities
of denying these rights to women. It is clearly important that efforts
made and lessons learned at the OEWG are supported by activities
at the national level to raise awareness and to lobby states before
and after their attendance at the UN.
There
is a clear lack of writing and research into this area and, as a
result, both states and citizens are unclear about the potential
impact an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) would have. We have a real
opportunity to educate states and individuals on all areas, contentious
and otherwise, of the OPICESCR.
Highlights
of this activity include:
1.
IWRAW Asia Pacific's statement to the working group on the importance
of having a comprehensive Optional Protocol. Click here
2. Participating in a meeting with the NGO Coalition and the African
delegation.
3. Actively participating in NGO Coalition meetings in relation
to activities and strategy. The Coalition’s submission to the OEWG
can be found here
4. Drafting a press release to raise awareness at the national level.
Click here to read our statement.
IWRAW
Asia Pacific is also part of the NGO Coalition on the OP ICESCR.
Visit the Coalition website
for more information on the campaign.
Take
Action Now!
- Take the
five-minute, thirty-minute, sixty-minute or half-day activism
challenge for the OP to ICESCR. “A Quick Guide to the Kit” will
help you work out, in a speedy fashion, which bit is right for
you! Click here for details.
- Join the
Action Alert email list at http://www.nwjc.org.au/avcwl/lists/info/op-icescr.html
Organised by
the NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP to the ICESCR)
This
page was last updated on Sept 14, 2007
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