Young Women Making Change
2015
Young women from Laos, Malaysia, Timor Leste and Vietnam participated in a three-year project with IWRAW Asia Pacific, funded by UN Women Fund for Gender Equality (FGE), on becoming CEDAW advocates for women’s human rights. Duration: 10:54 Subtitles: English
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Handbook on Women, Development and Access to Justice
2015
78-page PDF resource which explores the use of CEDAW and ICESCR, as well as other policy instruments such as the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which can be used to strengthen the accountability of states and responsibility of non-state actors on women’s human rights. The handbook documents and collates several tools […]
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Women’s Economic Rights: Training Materials
2015
63-page PDF of training materials which have been put together with the objective of building capacity to analyse women’s economic rights applying a CEDAW lens. The materials attempt to link the relevant international and regional standards, norms, obligations and guidelines that demand a State’s accountability for the enjoyment and exercise of women’s economic rights, taking […]
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Framework for Women’s Economic Rights in ASEAN
2015
48-page PDF covering women’s economic rights, ASEAN economic integration, and neoliberalism and human rights in ASEAN. Also available in Vietnamese.
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Business and Women’s Human Rights: Natural Resource Governance & Management – International Standards
2014
This video – the last in a series of five – explains some of the international standards related to natural resource governance and emphasises the State’s human rights obligations. It also highlights the need for women’s rights to natural resources to be addressed using international human rights standards. This video was made possible with the […]
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Business and Women’s Human Rights: Natural Resource Governance
2014
This video – part four in a series of five – explains natural resource governance and emphasises the importance of the State and private actors in involving local communities. It also highlights the need for women’s human rights to be addressed using international human rights standards. This video was made possible with the support of […]
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Business and Women’s Human Rights: Women in the Value Chain
2014
This video – part three in a series of five – includes an explanation of ‘value chain’ and women’s roles in it, research by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) on female agricultural workers, components to help women achieve equal access to resources, and the relevance of incorporating CEDAW Article 14 into value chain analysis and […]
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Business and Women’s Human Rights: Women Migrant Workers
2014
This video – part two in a series of five – looks at the factors pushing women to migrate to other countries in search of employment; jobs that migrant women workers are limited to; discriminations faced before, during, and after migration; lack of protection in informal sectors; and how CEDAW General Recommendation No. 26 is […]
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Business and Women’s Human Rights: CEDAW, UNGP and WEP
2014
This video – part one in a series of five – introduces applicable humans rights frameworks (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and Women’s Empowerment Principles) when dealing with corporations or businesses (private sector) for the promotion of gender equality and […]
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CEDAW Quick & Concise: Principle of Substantive Equality
2014
A short animation explaining CEDAW’s principle of substantive equality. Короткая анимация, объясняющая принцип фактического равенства КЛДЖ. Una animación corta que explica el principio de CEDAW de la igualdad sustantiva. Para ver los subtítulos en español, hay que hacer clic en el icono del engranaje y seleccionar el idioma. Duration: 3:38 Subtitles: English, Russian, Spanish Bahasa […]
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