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Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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CEDAW OPTIONAL PROTOCOL - RESOURCES
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women, Model form for Submission of
Communications under the Optional Protocol to CEDAW
Jane Connors, “Optional Protocol,” in Marsha A. Freeman,
Christine Chinkin & Beate Rudolf, The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women: A Commentary (2012), 607-679
Simone Cusack, Mechanisms for Advancing Women’s
Human Rights: A Guide to Using the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and
Other International Complaint Mechanisms (Australian
Human Rights Commission, 2011)
Ceri
Hayes, A Lever for Change: Using the
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (Equality
and Human Rights Commission (
Inter-American
Institute of Human Rights, Optional Protocol: Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2000)
International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia
Pacific, Our Rights are Not Optional: A
Resource Guide, Advocating for the Implementation of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW) Through Its Optional Protocol, 2nd ed. (2008)
KARAT Coalition, OP
CEDAW Toolkit (2009)
Open Society Justice Initiative, Case Digests: UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (2004 – 2012)
Donna J. Sullivan, Overview of the Rule Requiring The
Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies Under the Optional Protocol to CEDAW,
International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific OP-CEDAW Technical
Papers No. 1 (2008)
PROCEDURAL CHECKLISTS
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s Guide on the
Optional Protocol to CEDAW (Mechanisms for Advancing Women’s
Human Rights: A Guide to Using the Optional Protocol
to CEDAW and Other International Complaint Mechanisms)
contains three checklists to assist in the preparation of communications and
requests for inquiry.
All checklists (pp. 23, 31,
43)
Communication procedure checklist
Practical considerations checklist
Last updated: 26 June
2012