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Application for Sub-Regional Training of Trainers on the Application of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Greetings from International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific!

 

IWRAW Asia Pacific is happy to announce a Sub- Regional Training of Trainers on the Application of Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for women’s rights activists and staff of women’s organizations from Southeast Asia who are committed to the promotion of equality and the human rights of women through engagement with the CEDAW.   The training will be held from 31 May- 6 June 2010 in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia.

The Sub-Regional Training of Trainers on the Application of CEDAW (SRTOT) aims to enable participants to the following: 

  • Create and raise awareness among women, women’s NGOs, human rights activists and NGOs, governments and other bodies about:
    • The significance of the CEDAW Convention and its principles in promoting women’s rights to equality;
    • The principles of substantive equality, non-discrimination and state obligation as provided for in the CEDAW Convention as providing the normative standards for the realization of women’s rights;
    • The need for women to claim, exercise and work to sustain their rights;
  • Apply the CEDAW framework in specific contexts such as in the development of policy and programmes, law reforms, litigations and other advocacy on women’s human rights;
  • Provide a conceptual understanding of the barriers to establishing women’s rights as human rights;
  • Raise awareness of the significance of engaging in regional and international advocacy to advance women’s rights and to create an understanding of UN and ASEAN mechanisms and processes and entry points for women’s activism.

 

As a follow up to the SRTOT, participants will be asked to commit themselves to conduct at least one (1) national level training of trainers in their respective countries with the support of IWRAW Asia Pacific, and engage with local and national level initiatives using tools & knowledge gained through the SRTOT on CEDAW towards advancing women’s human rights.

We would appreciate if you can send your Application or nominate someone who is working as an activist and affiliated to women’s organisation committed towards promoting and advancing women’s rights in your respective countries. Please feel free to forward this invitation and call for applications to interested organisations and individuals with an experience of working on CEDAW.

 

Participants must meet the following criteria:

  • They must have specific grounding in gender and human rights and experience related to CEDAW;
  • They must have some experience and skills conducting women’s human rights trainings (experience with trainings on CEDAW is not essential);
  • They must have an institutional base in the respective countries that works on women’s rights and has a training agenda or plans to introduce a training agenda on CEDAW;
  • They must commit to conduct at least ONE national training of trainers on CEDAW in their respective countries as immediate follow up to the SRTOT;
  • Fluency in English.  

      We can accommodate a maximum of 20 participants for the SRTOT.

 

Please find attached Application Form which includes further information.

 

We would greatly appreciate if you could send us your completed application form, CV, letter of support from your organisation and writing samples in English by 26 April 2010.  Concept Note can be sent to you upon request.

 

 

Wathshlah G. Naidu and Gauri Bhopatkar

 

Programme Officers

 

International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific

80-B, Jalan Bangsar

59200 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

Telephone: (603) 2282 2255

Fax: (603) 2283 2552

Email: iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org; iwraw_ap@yahoo.com  

Website: www.iwraw-ap.org

 

International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) was founded in 1993 to work towards the realisation of the human rights of women through the use of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and other international human rights instruments. The crosscutting premise justifying IWRAW Asia Pacific’s past, present and future areas of work is the need for the mobilisation of women’s groups to draw accountability from their governments on the domestic application of human rights standards. It views CEDAW and other international treaties as tools for bringing about change at all levels and in a wide range of contexts (e.g., violence against women, employment, marriage, citizenship, rural development). IWRAW Asia Pacific currently works in 14 countries in South and Southeast Asia and over 100 countries globally. For further information visit our website, http://www.iwraw-ap.org.

 

 





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