Event Report: Women and Migration in Europe & the Commonwealth of Independent States

To celebrate the 30^th anniversary of CEDAW, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), organised a panel discussion on “Women and Migration” in Geneva with links to six video conference sites, based in: Chisinau, Moldova; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Almaty, Kazakhstan; and Brussels, Belgium.

The event in Brussels was co-organized by WIDE, EWL and UNIFEM. You can read and download the report from this event.

KARAT Dedicates its Bulletin to CEDAW

KARAT Coalition is delighted to present the special issue of their bulletin dedicated to 30th anniversary of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

KARAT believes in CEDAW and is committed to work for it’s stronger political potential. With this issue KARAT invites you to get familiar with their actions around the Convention – events, publications, travels – they have recently done.

Please feel free to download the bulletin from here.

WIDE CEDAW Special Newsletter

In the framework of WIDE CEDAW +30 Campaign, WIDE has published a Special Issue of its  Newsletter dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination agains Women.

We are grateful to all members of the CEDAW Task Force group for their contributions, motivation and involvement.

We invite you to download the CEDAW Newsletter from here.

Arab League, Karama and UNIFEM Commemorate 30 Years of the CEDAW Treaty to End Discrimination Against Women

On December 15-16, 2009, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Karama, together in partnership with UNIFEM and the League of Arab States, will host a Regional CEDAW Celebration for the NGOs in the Arab region to launch a retrospection on the history of CEDAW advocacy in the Arab region, as well as to form commitments for the future.

Twenty-two experts and activists from NGOs throughout the Arab Region will come together for a two-day event to discuss the track record of CEDAW advocacy throughout the region and create strategies for future initiatives.

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How to use CEDAW as an advocacy tool

On the ocassion of the 30th anniversary of CEDAW – the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women – International Land Coalition (ILC) has developed an infonote on how to use CEDAW as an advocacy tool.

CEDAW is the only human rights treaty that deals specifically with rural women, highlighting the need for women’s participation and access to basic social services – and is therefore a powerful tool to advocate for rural women. ILC has produced this infonote to inform civil society organisations (referred to as NGOs in CEDAW terminology) how they can engage in the CEDAW review process. There is also a separate Questions and Answers document that provides detailed information on specific aspects of this process.