WUNRN
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE
CEDAW FOR CHANGE
UN Convention for the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women
May 25 –May
29, 2009
Centre for Women’s Studies in
Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education
University
of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
In cooperation with Fundacion Justicia y Genero, Costa Rica
All
the sessions stress the multiplicity of the forms of discrimination women from
diverse situations experience. The week
is designed to provide participants with
a better understanding of the principles of non discrimination and
equality as enshrined in this Convention and each State’s obligation to
respect, protect and fulfill women’s human rights. Participants will be helped to frame whatever
issues they are working on within a human right’s framework from a gender
perspective. During the week we will
have activities around identity and interconnectedness, the complex nature of
discrimination, the impact of culture and religion on women’s rights, and
activism against discrimination.
- Definition of Discrimination
- Substantive Equality (this is equality which takes into consideration the multiple
discriminations women from diverse groups experience because it focuses on
equal outcomes rather than simply ‘equal’ treatment)
- Rights Contained in CEDAW (which include civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights as they have been expanded
over the years. These rights
include sexual and reproductive rights, the right to live free of
violence, and the rights of women with disabilities, migrant women, women
living with HIV/AIDS, indigenous women, young women and the girl child,
elderly women, etc. Many of these specific rights will be studied by
combining CEDAW with other declarations and conventions which deal in
particular with these groups of women.)
- Problems and Gaps in CEDAW and how to solve them.
- Culture and/or Religion and Women’s Rights/Cultural
Relativism
- Violence against women in the CEDAW
- Neoliberalism, neocolonialism, free trade and Women’s
Rights
- Analysis of the 10 first Cases of the OP-CEDAW
- CEDAW
Committee:
- Official
and Shadow Reporting
- Procedures in the Optional Protocol of CEDAW
- General
Recommendations and Concluding Comments
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