28 December
2006
Season’s greetings from IWRAW Asia
Pacific.
Please find below an extensive list of web resources relating to CEDAW and women’s human rights which we believe you will find invaluable in your work in the promotion of women’s equality.
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The WEB RESOURCES are organised into
the following CATEGORIES:
A. CEDAW
B. Optional protocol to
CEDAW
C. UN entities specialising in
gender issues
D. UN human rights instruments and
bodies
E. Human
Rights Council
F. UN
Reform
G. Regional human rights instruments
and bodies
H.
International and regional courts and jurisprudence
I. Women's human rights online
resources and websites of selected women’s organisations
J. Human rights online resources and
websites of selected human rights organisations
A.
CEDAW
Text of the CEDAW
Convention
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/convention_text.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/econvention.htm>
Principles of the CEDAW Convention –
substantive equality, non-discrimination and state
obligation
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/principles.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/equality.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/non_discrimination.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/obligation.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/conclusion.htm>
The CEDAW Committee – role and
members of the committee
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/committee.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/committee/role.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/members.htm>
General Recommendations
of the CEDAW Committee
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/general.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/recommendations/index.html>
Concluding Comments of the CEDAW
Committee
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/committee/comments.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/committee/list.htm>
List of State parties to the CEDAW
Convention
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/parties.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/states.htm>
Reservations and/or Declarations
entered into by State parties
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/convention/reservations_parties.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/reservations.htm>
Reporting schedule of
State parties
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/committee/schedule.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/sessions.htm>
[Note: the DAW’s webpage also
includes the reports of the CEDAW Committee and other official documents
such as the State party’s report, List of Issues and Questions and State party
responses, Statements, Concluding Comments, Summary Records
and Press Releases from the Session]
Reports presented to the CEDAW Committee by States Parties
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/reports.htm>
Guidelines for States Parties reports
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/reporting.htm>
Sample NGO Shadow/Alternative
reports
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/sample_shadow.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/shadow_reports.htm>
Guidelines for NGO
Shadow/Alternative reports and how NGOs can influence the reporting
process
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/sreport_guidelines.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/writing_shadow.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/effective.htm>
Division for the Advancement of
Women (DAW) – information about DAW
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/daw/>
<http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/21.htm>
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/eliminationvaw.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/>
International
Conference on Population and Development (
<http://www.unfpa.org/icpd/icpd_poa.htm>
CEDAW Online Resources
UNIFEM, Bringing Equality Home:
Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (New York;1998)
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/pdf/BringingEqualityHome_eng.pdf>
UNIFEM,
CEDAW MADE EASY : Question & Answer Booklet (
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/pdf/CEDAWMadeEasy.pdf>
Partners for Law in Development,
CEDAW:
Restoring Rights to Women (
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/aboutus/pdf/CEDAWRealisingRights.pdf>
Ana Elena
Obando, WHRnet: “The CEDAW Committee – A space for our
rights”
<http://www.whrnet.org/docs/issue-cedaw_committee.html>
International
Women’s Rights Project: Updated and Annotated CEDAW
Bibliography
A compilation
of sources dealing with CEDAW.
<http://www.iwrp.org/pdf/biblio.pdf>
Diane Elson,
Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW: A Report to
UNIFEM (2005).
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/pdf/MonitoringGovernmentBudgets
ComplianceCEDAW_eng.pdf>
Selected NGO websites on
CEDAW
International Women’s Rights Action
Watch Asia Pacific
<http://www.iwraw-ap>
International Women’s Rights Action
Watch -
<http://www.igc.org/iwraw/>
Amnesty International
<http://www.amnesty-usa.org/cedaw/>
Human Rights Watch – on
CEDAW
<http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/cedaw/>
B.
OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO CEDAW
Text of the OP-CEDAW
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/text_english.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/protocol/text.htm>
List of State parties to the
OP-CEDAW
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/list_signatories.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/protocol/sigop.htm>
Communications procedure under the Optional Protocol
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/communications.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/commchart.htm>
Inquiry
procedure under the Optional Protocol
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/inquiry.htm>
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/inquirychart.htm>
NGOs and the
OP-CEDAW
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/tips_ngos.htm>
Selected OP-CEDAW Online
Resources
The
Division for the Advancement of Women – Optional Protocol to
CEDAW
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/protocol/>
IWRAW
Asia Pacific’s website on the Optional Protocol to
CEDAW
English:
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol.htm>
Spanish:
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/PFCedawEspanyol/index.htm>
IWRAW
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/aboutus/tools.htm>
How to Complain
to the UN Treaty System: OP-CEDAW
<http://www.bayefsky.com/tree.php/id/9182>
AWID - CEDAW
and the Optional Protocol to CEDAW
<http://www.awid.org/publications/primers/factsissues2.pdf>
Women’s Human
Rights Net - The OP-CEDAW and Its Applicability on the
Ground
<http://www.whrnet.org/docs/issue-cedaw1.html>
Ana Elena
Obando, WHRnet: “The CEDAW Committee – A space for our
rights” <http://www.whrnet.org/docs/issue-cedaw_committee.html>
C.
UN ENTITIES SPECIALISING IN GENDER ISSUES
WomenWatch
An inter-agency website which is a
central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality
and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system
.
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/>
Division for the Advancement of
Women (DAW)
<http://www.un.org/women/daw>
Commission for the Status of Women
(CSW)
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw>
International Research and Training
Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
<http://www.un-instraw.org/en/>
Office of the Special Adviser to the
Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI)
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/>
United Nations Development Fund for
Women (UNIFEM)
<http://www.unifem.org/>
D.
UN HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS AND BODIES
Office for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – Overview of UN International Human
Rights Law
Contains a non-exhaustive list of
international human rights law; including the International Bill of Rights, the
core human rights treaties, and many other universal instruments relating to
human rights.
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/>
Office for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – Overview of the UN Treaty
Bodies
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/treaty/index.htm>
United Nations Human Rights Treaty
System
Fact sheet on The United Nations
Human Rights Treaty System: An introduction to the core human rights treaties
and the treaty bodies
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/fs30.pdf>
Status of the Ratification of the
Principal International Human Rights Treaties (as of 16 June 2006)
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/docs/RatificationStatus.pdf>
Human
Rights Watch: Number of Core Human Rights Treaties
and Protocols Ratified
<http://www.hrw.org/un/elections/xls/treaty_asia.xls>
OHCHR Reporting schedules of all
treaties
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/sessions.htm>
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/sessions.htm>
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/sessions.htm>
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/sessions.htm>
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/sessions.htm>
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/sessions.htm>
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/sessions.htm>
OHCHR Treaty Body
Database on the UN Human Rights Conventions
The Treaty
Body database comprises information relating to the seven human rights
committees that monitor implementation of the core international human rights
treaties.
<http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf>
Guide on how to
use this database:
<www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/unwebsearch2.ppt>)
United Nations Bibliographic
Information System (UNBISnet)
UNBISnet
is comprised of three databases - Bibliographic Records (UN documents and
publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York and the
Library of the UN Office at Geneva) Voting Records (voting records for
resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Security Council); and Index
to Speeches (Citations to speeches made in the General Assembly, the Security
Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council)
<http://unbisnet.un.org/>
Guide on how to use
UNBISnet:
<http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/unbisnetweb.ppt>
Bayefsky: United Nations Human
Rights Treaty System
Contains text of the Treaties,
General Recommendations, Concluding Observations/Concluding Comments of
international human rights treaties
<http://www.bayefsky.com>
Bayefsky: How to Complain to the UN Treaty
System
<http://www.bayefsky.com/unts/index.html>
Amnesty International – Treaty
Bodies
<http://web.amnesty.org/pages/treaty-index-eng>
UN
Treaty Collection – Overview
A basic - but not an exhaustive -
overview of the key terms employed in the United Nations Treaty Collection to
refer to international instruments binding at international law: treaties,
agreements, conventions, charters, protocols, declarations, memoranda of
understanding, modus vivendi and exchange of notes. The purpose is to facilitate
a general understanding of their scope and function.
<http://untreaty.un.org/English/guide.asp>
UN
Treaty Collection - Database
Contains all multilateral treaties
deposited with the Secretary-General of the UN and those formerly deposited with
the League of Nations - their latest status and a link to the full texts;
Bilateral and multilateral treaties registered with and published by the United
Nations Secretariat in accordance with Article 102 up to a certain date -
Detailed treaty references and full texts in all authentic language(s); Recently
Deposited Multilateral Treaties that have been deposited but not yet published -
available for viewing and downloading in some or all of their authentic
languages.
<http://untreaty.un.org/English/treaty.asp>
<http://www.thecommonwealth.org/shared_asp_files/uploadedfiles/%7BA2407AAC-A477-491D-ABA4-A2CADF227E2B%7D_BANGALORE%20PRINCIPLES.pdf>
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs)
<http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/>
<http://www.thecommonwealth.org/document/34293/35468/36768/the_victoria_falls_declaration_of_principles_for_t.htm>
<http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf>
Vienna Declaration and Programme Of
Action
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/vienna.htm>
E.
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
UN Human
Rights Council website
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/>
Human Rights Council Extranet
Page
The extranet page contains updated documents, statements, and schedules of the Human Rights
Council.
<http://portal.ohchr.org/>
To access the extranet site, go to
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/form.htm>, fill in the form
on that page with your name and email address, and a username and password will
be sent to you.
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/special/index.htm>
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/factsheet27.pdf>
International Service for Human
Rights (ISHR) website on the Human Rights Council
<http://www.ishr.ch/hrm/council/index.htm>
International Service for Human
Rights (ISHR), A New Chapter for Human Rights: A handbook on issues of transition from
the Commission on Human Rights to the Human Rights
Council (2006)
The handbook highlights the major
issues of transition from the Commission to the Council, briefly describing the
old system under the Commission, what the Council needs to consider and do
during its first year, and some of the key issues, and existing suggestions and
choices.
<http://www.ishr.ch/handbook/Handbook.pdf>
F.
UN REFORM
UN website on the Reform at the
United Nations – contains reference reports and
materials
<http://www.un.org/reform/>
Office for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) website on Treaty Body
Reform
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/treaty/reform.htm>
UN High-level Panel on System-wide
Coherence
<http://www.un.org/events/panel/index.html>
World Federalist Movement -
Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) – ReformtheUN.org
website
ReformtheUN.org is a project started
by the World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) that
provides up-to-date information and resources about UN
reform.
<http://www.reformtheun.org/>
Center for Women’s Global Leadership
– UN Advocacy
UN Advocacy
with a focus on women’s human rights
<http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/policy/unadvocacy/index.html>
Harmonized
guidelines on reporting under the international human
rights
treaties, including guidelines on a common core document
and
treaty-specific
documents
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/news/docs/Revised%20Reporting%20Guidelines
%202006.pdf>
Concept
Paper on the High Commissioner’s Proposal for a Unified Standing Treaty
Body
<http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/icm-mc/docs/HRI.MC.2006.2.pdf>
International Women’s Tribune
Centre, “UN Reform: What’s in it for Women?” (August 2006)
The International Women’s Tribune
Centre and the Heinrich Böll Foundation published a book entitled, “UN Reform:
What’s in it for Women?” in August 2006. The publication features
reflections, insights, and analysis by women from different regions specifically
examining the impact of the UN reform process on women at the regional and
national levels. It also presents different initiatives and proposals in
ensuring women’s spaces within the UN as well as concrete recommendations on how
to influence the UN reform process.
<http://www.iwtc.org/reform_report.pdf>
G.
REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS AND BODIES
African
System
<http://www.achpr.org/english/_info/news_en.html>
European System
European Convention on
Human Rights
<http://www.echr.coe.int/echr>
Inter-American
System
Inter-American
Court of Human Rights Home Page
<http://www.corteidh.or.cr/>
Instruments
of the Inter-American system
<http://www.corteidh.or.cr/sistemas.cfm?id=2>
Arab
System
<http://www.arableagueonline.org/las/index.jsp>
NGO Working Group for an
ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
<http://www.aseanhrmech.org/>
H.
INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL COURTS AND JURISPRUDENCE
African
Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
<http://www.achpr.org/>
<http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/Case-Law/HUDOC/HUDOC+database/>
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Home Page
<http://www.corteidh.or.cr/>
International Criminal
Court
<www.un.org/law/icc> and
<http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en>
International Criminal Tribunal for
<www.ictr.org>
International Criminal Tribunal for
the former
<http://www.un.org/icty/>
United
Nations Treaty Body Database: Jurisprudence of the Treaty
Monitoring Bodies (with links to Human Rights Committee, Committee against
Torture, Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination)
<http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/jurispr.htm>
Bayefsky:
Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Treaties
<http://www.bayefsky.com/docs.php/area/jurisprudence>
INTERIGHTS Human Rights Case Law
Database
Human Rights Case Law Database
service. Over 2,000 summaries of significant human rights decisions are
available, from both domestic Commonwealth courts, and from tribunals applying
international human rights law such as the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights, the European Court of Human Rights and many more
<http://www.interights.org/searchdatabases.php?dir=databases>
IWRAW
Landmark cases on women’s human
rights at the national, regional and international levels. The second set
illustrates the ways other UN treaty bodies have dealt with procedural matters
similar to those included in the OP-CEDAW
<http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/case_law.htm>
Worldlii
A free, independent and non-profit
global legal research facility developed collaboratively by the following Legal
Information Institutes: Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII),
British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII), Canadian Legal
Information Institute (CanLII), Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII),
Legal Information Institute (Cornell) (LII (Cornell)), Pacific Islands Legal
Information Institute (PacLII), Wits University School of Law (Wits Law
School)
<www.worldlii.org>
For
a guide on how to use the search engine see: <http://www.worldlii.org/worldlii/guides/brochure/WorldLII_brochure.pdf>
I.
WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE RESOURCES AND WEBSITES OF SELECTED WOMEN’S
ORGANISATIONS
Amnesty International Database on
Women's Human Rights
<http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/women/index.html>
BAOBAB for Women's Human
Rights
A non-governmental women's human
rights organization, which focuses on women's legal rights issues under the
three (3) systems of law - customary, statutory and religious laws in
Nigeria.
<http://www.baobabwomen.org/>
BRIDGE: Development and
Gender
<http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/>
Canadian Council of Muslim Women
A national non-profit organization
established to assist Muslim women in participating effectively in Canadian
Society and to promote mutual understanding between Canadian Muslim women and
women of other faiths.
<http://www.ccmw.com/>
Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC)
An organisation that serves as a
voice for Catholics and works issues of sexuality and reproductive
health.
<http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/>
Center for Reproductive Rights:
Bringing Rights to Bear
<http://www.crlp.org/pri_humanrights.html>
Center for Women's Global
Leadership
<http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/>
Division for the Advancement of
Women - publications
<http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/public/>
Human Rights Watch: Alerts and
updates on women's rights
<http://www.hrw.org/women/>
International Women's Tribune Center
(IWTC)
An NGO
that provides communication, information, education, and organizing support
services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the
lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific,
Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
<http://www.iwtc.org/>
Siyanda
An on-line database of gender and
development materials from around the world.
<http://www.siyanda.org/>
Contains
articles, papers and documents on Women’s Rights
<http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/>
A guide to resources on Women's Human Rights in the Context of International Law
Research:
<http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/resguide/women2.htm>
UNIFEM –
on gender issues
<http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/human_rights/>
Women, Inc.
<http://www.womenink.org/>
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
(WLUML)
An international network that
provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are
shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from
Islam.
<www.wluml.org/>
Women's Human Rights
Net
Provides
information and analyses on women's human rights issues worldwide; an overview
of UN/Regional Human Rights Systems; a research tool that serves as gateway to
the best available online resources relevant to women's human rights advocacy;
and a comprehensive collection of related Links.
<http://www.whrnet.org/>
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice:
International Criminal Court
A women’s human rights
organisation advocating for gender-inclusive justice and working towards an
effective and independent International Criminal Court
(ICC).
http://www.iccwomen.org/
Women Action
A global
information, communication and media network that enables NGOs to actively
engage in the Beijing+5 review process with the long term goal of women's
empowerment, with a special focus on women and media.
<http://www.womenaction.org/>
A
non-governmental organisation to implement the conclusions and recommendations
of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of
Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions. This study is a major,
universal, comprehensive U.N. approach to intolerance and discrimination against
women based on religion and traditions.
<http://www.wunrn.com/>
J.
HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE RESOURCES AND WEBSITES OF SELECTED HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANISATIONS
Amnesty
International
<http://www.amnesty.org/>
Centre for Housing Rights and
Evictions (COHRE)
An international human rights
organisation campaigning for the protection of housing rights and the prevention
of forced evictions.
<http://www.cohre.org/>
ESCR-Net’s Optional Protocol to the
ICESCR Resource Page
Contains information on current
efforts to promote the drafting of an Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
(OP-ICESCR).
<http://www.escr-net.org/EngGeneral/op_rp_0.asp>
FIAN
FoodFirst Information and Action
Network (FIAN), is an international human rights organisation that advocates for
the realization of the right to food.
<http://www.fian.org/
>
Human Rights for Human Dignity: A
primer on economic, social and cultural rights by Amnesty
International
<http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engpol340092005>
Human Rights Watch
<http://www.hrw.org/>
Human Rights Network
International
A collection of documents related to
human rights which includes instruments, case law of the European Court of Human
Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights and UN Human Rights Committee,
articles, bibliographic references, internet sites, reports and a list of human
rights actors such as NGOs, universities and international
organisations.
<http://www.hrni.org>
HURISEARCH
A
web research
tool on human rights information on the
web.
<http://www.hurisearch.org>
Human Rights
Internet
An on-line resource, information and
documentation centre for human rights actors and organizations, as well as
interested individuals, around the
world.
<http://www.hri.ca/>
INTERIGHTS
An organisation that aims to enforce
human rights through law, providing protection and redress; to strengthen human
rights jurisprudence and mechanisms through the use of international and
comparative law; and to empower legal partners and promote their effective use
of law to protect human rights.
<http://www.interights.org/>
Juscogens.net
Juscogens.net, a website dedicated
to recent developments in the field of public international law. Sources include
the opinions of international tribunals, international conventions,
international organizations, international custom, and the judicial decisions
and teachings of qualified publicists.
Mandat International: International
human rights and humanitarian law search engine
A search engine on a selection of
main international conventions.
<http://www.whatconvention.org/index.php?langue=Eng>
Office of High Commissioner for
Human Rights (OHCHR): Treaty Body Database
<http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/>
People's Decade for Human Rights
Education
A site
dedicated to human rights learning for social and economic
transformation.
<http://www.pdhre.org>
Right to
Education
A
human rights resource on the right to education.
<http://www.right-to-education.org/>
Bayefsky: United Nations Human
Rights Treaty System
<http://www.bayefsky.com>