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Why
CEDAW?
There are many
reasons why we need a human rights treaty on women.
- Women's
human rights are not automatically recognised in proclamations
on the rights of men and in the practice of human rights. The
experience of gender-based human rights violations by women is
rarely recognised as human rights.
- There are
tensions between civil and political and socio-economic rights.
The international community has largely focused on the former;
whereas the violations against women occur in both arenas, or
to a great extent, in the socio-economic sphere.
- The focus
in other treaties is on retribution for individuals. This treaty
focuses on systems, ideology and institutions that deny women
their rights.
- In other
treaties there is a focus on State actors who violate rights.
This treaty goes beyond that to hold States accountable for the
denial of women's rights by non-State actors including violations
that occur within the family.
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