CEDAW Elections Guide 2024
February 2024
Eleven new CEDAW Committee members will be elected on 7 June 2024 at the 23rd Meeting of States parties in New York. Newly elected Committee members will replace outgoing members whose terms of office will expire on 31 December 2024. Although the election process remains state-driven, there exist avenues for NGO involvement in the nomination […]
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Technical Brief: A guide for women who use drugs on engaging with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
January 2023
Produced by the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), with input from Constanza Pauchulo at IWRAW Asia Pacific, this technical brief provides an overview of CEDAW and guidance on the procedures and steps for women who use drugs to effectively engage with its processes. PDF, 24 pages; also available in French.
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CEDAW-SDGs Tools User Manual
March 2022
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which resolves to take action for people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership through a commitment to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite their lofty intentions, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs have been criticised for failing to center existing international commitments, […]
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Recovering Rights: Governments’ Obligation to Ensure Substantive Gender Equality
August 2020
The Recovering Rights series from the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) looks at opportunities for the post-COVID-19 transformation of our economies, with rights and justice at the centre. This brief, written in partnership with IWRAW Asia Pacific, discusses the disproportionate economic disadvantages faced by women as a result of the pandemic, and the […]
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