The
Practical Impact of Recommendations
Recommendations
issued at the international level to a States party accused
of violating the rights of a woman within its jurisdiction can
and should be employed by the legal system and civil society
to practically impact the lives of women. This need not be limited
to the lives of women within the States party to whom the recommendation
is issued. There are no restrictions on lawyers, activists,
academics or organisations using a recommendation addressed
to another States party, to highlight women's rights violations
in their own jurisdiction and identify how this might be remedied.
Ways in which recommendations can be employed to ensure a practical
impact include:
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Creating
public awareness of human rights standards prohibiting discrimination
against women. The OP-CEDAW requires States to make this treaty
and its procedures as widely known as possible. Communications
and inquiries under the OP-CEDAW will receive publicity, and
this will increase public awareness of it and the CEDAW Convention.
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Building
awareness among women of their rights as claimants. As the
CEDAW Committee addresses communications and inquiries and
identifies those that disclose violations of women's rights,
more concrete examples of what constitutes a violation under
the CEDAW Convention will emerge. Examples of such litigation
can be used not only to increase awareness among women that
certain actions amount to rights violations but that further,
it is a woman's right to have these violations addressed.
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