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Presentation:
POLITICIZE
CEDAW ARTICLE 14(a):
RURAL WOMEN & THE TRIPLE CRISIS
Presentation
by Marina Durano of DAWN at a panel organized by the Women's UN Report Network
(WUNRN) and UN-Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) as a Side Event to
the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women on 2 March 2012.
Excerpt - Among the long-standing
questions we are facing is how best to fully implement commitments in Article
14 of the CEDAW. CEDAW’s Article 14 placed special emphasis on rural women’s
lives. The recommendations in Article 14 may be grouped into three broad areas,
which are: participation and organizing, social security and services, and
access to finance and assets. This requires from governments the formulation of
rural development strategies and agricultural policies take into provisions in
Article 14. What we are doing today is discussing this issue at a time when the
UNFPA reports1 that
more than half of the world’s population is now living in urban areas. This
population shift would seem to make the concerns of the rural poor less
significant, especially if the concerns of the urban poor captures the
attention of policy makers.
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