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Bringing equality home: implementing the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women

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This booklet provides a collection of 'snapshots' of a dynamic process currently taking place around the world as societies explores ways of using the COnvention to bring concrete improvements to women's daily lives.U NIFEM is deeply committed to bringing about systematic change that leads to women’s empowerment and gender equality. The Fund has integrated a rights-based framework into our work, which means that we view the pursuit of sustainable human development as a fundamental human rights issue and are committed to consistently relating human rights to the development dialogue. We are convinced that a women’s human rights framework equips women with a way to define and express their experiences of violence, discrimination, and marginalisation. This framework provides a critical perspective for the development of concrete strategies for change, by employing a gendered lens in the examination of the human rights norms and standards that hold States accountable for creating the conditions necessary to achieve equality and non-discrimination for women in all areas of their lives. UNIFEM has worked with non-governmental organisations, Governments, and partner agencies in the UN system to ensure that women’s human rights continue to be a centrepiece in the follow-up to the world conferences, building on the foundation laid by Vienna and the Beijing Platform for Action. Our work in this area is guided by our understanding that the task of transforming social values and creating a culture of respect for the human rights of women is a complex and lengthy process. Norms and standards of human rights are usually set in the international fora, but once this has been accomplished the next critical step in realising these rights begins through implementation at the national level. In promoting the realisation of women’s human rights, UNIFEM has developed an array of initiatives around the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The CEDAW framework can be tremendously useful in working for legal and policy changes at local, national, and international levels. We have developed new programming aimed at: (a) achieving universal ratification of the Women’s Convention and removal/narrowing of States’ reservations (b) strengthening awareness of CEDAW and of the capacity of women’s organisations to use it in their advocacy work and, (c) collaborating with other partners to support the work of the CEDAW Committee and strengthening the Women’s Convention. Indeed, we have pledged to become to CEDAW what UNICEF has been to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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KP.IV LEW b

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New York : United Nations Development Fund for Women., 1998

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45p. : ilus. ; 21 cm.

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English

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0912917512

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KP.IV

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Diskriminasi gender

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