Facilitators: Alda Facio and Martha Morgan, with Angela Lytle & Denisse Temin
Offered in Partnership with International Women’s Human Rights Action Watch-Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP)
The CEDAW for Change module within the six-week WHRI is open for additional enrollment as a one-week intensive for those who cannot attend the full course. One-week participants will join the six-week programme participants in this one-week module designed to cultivate a better understanding of the principles of non discrimination and equality as enshrined in CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women) 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 rights framework from a gender perspective.
APPLICATION:
This session stresses the multiplicity of forms of discrimination women from diverse situations experience. During the week we will learn through activities focused around identity and interconnectedness, the complex nature of discrimination, the impact of culture and religion on women’s rights, and activism against discrimination. We will examine case studies that have come before the CEDAW committee and will explore ways in which CEDAW can be used to support local and national level activism through the submission of Shadow Reports by NGOs and through the CEDAW Optional Protocol.
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