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ADVOCACY FOR WOMEN'S ECONOMIC,
SOCIAL & CULTURAL RIGHTS - ESCR-NET
Advocacy within UN
Bodies - CEDAW and CESCR
During
the Women and
ESCR discussions
at the International Strategy Meeting on ESCR, the participants collectively
decided that ESCR-Net's work on women's human rights should focus on reclaiming
economic, social and cultural rights as women's human rights. With this goal in
mind, the Women and ESCR group has developed two projects that focus on
requesting that UN bodies more comprehensively address women's human rights
issues and highlighting the importance of ensuring women's ESCR as a primary
strategy for achieving gender equality. We have identified a two-prong advocacy
approach: (1) creating resource material to create greater awareness and new
knowledge on women's ESCR, and (2) engage directly with both the CEDAW and ESCR
Committees, using the resource material described below, and advocate for a
more direct integration of women's ESCR into their reporting sessions with
States and eventually during communications brought under both treaties'
Optional Protocols.
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Resource Material
We are
in the process of creating shadow report guidelines in conjunction with IWRAW Asia-
Pacific on women's ESCR for both Committees, as well as a more general guide
which delves into the value-added in engaging with both Committees on women's
ESCR issues, both through shadow reporting and through the communications
procedure of the Optional Protocols. The guide will begin to look closer at
articulating women's rights issues and ESCR issues in an interdependent,
interconnected and indivisible way and offer possibilities for advocacy using
this framework.
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Committee Engagement
In
conjunction with COHRE's Women and Housing Program and IWRAW-Asia Pacific, we
are planning a thematic briefing with the CEDAW Committee on women's ESCR at
the 45th session on January 25, 2010 in
Get
Involved!
If
your organization is interested in being involved in this project or has
information to share with the CEDAW or ESCR Committee's, please contact us at: rbrown@escr-net.org. To share information or strategies
with other Women's ESCR advocates subscribe to the Women and
ESCR Discussion Group. ESCR-FEM-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Caselaw Database
In
Get Involved!
If
your organization has the capacity to more actively support the development of
the case law database with relation to women's ESCR, please email Rebecca Brown
at rbrown@escr-net.org. To share information or strategies with
other Women's ESCR advocates subscribe to the Women and ESCR Discussion Group.
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