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Rashida Manjoo Is New
UNSR VAW!
APWLD
and various other women’s human rights organisations welcome the appointment by
the United Nations Human Rights Council of Rashida Manjoo as the new UN Special
Rapporteur (SR) on violence against women, its causes and consequences.
Rashida
Manjoo is a South African legal practitioner as well as a member of Women
Living Under Muslim Laws. She has been working in different capacities in
various countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including
She
has been involved in a range of civil society initiatives for gender justice,
across a wide spectrum of social and cultural contexts, including conflict
situations in Africa and
The women’s movement worked
persistently and arduously to push for the creation of the UNSR on violence
against women, its causes and consequences mandate. When it was created in 1994, it was a gain for women the world over. The key to the
fulfillment of the SRVAW mandate has been consultations and cooperation with
not just governments, UN bodies and other special mechanisms, academicians and
research institutes but particularly with women’s groups and non-governmental
organisations (NGOs).
As we welcome Rashida Manjoo to her new post, we are confident that the mandate will remain responsive to the
women’s movement.
Women’s human rights groups across Asia Pacific look forward to working in
close collaboration with Rashida as we did with her predecessors.
APWLD
is a regional women’s human rights network of 150 members in 23 countries of
the Asia Pacific region committed to enabling women to use law as an instrument
of social change, equality and development.
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Tel: (66-53) 284 527, 284 856; Fax: (66-53) 280 847;
Email: apwld@apwld.org;
Website: http://www.apwld.org
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