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Introduction to CEDAW Janet Veitch Hannana Siddiqui Womens Resource Centre What is CEDAW? CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women a landmark international legal agreement adopted by

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Introduction to CEDAW

Janet Veitch Hannana Siddiqui Women’s Resource Centre

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What is CEDAW?

  • CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  • a landmark international legal agreement

adopted by the UN

  • It entered into force in 1981 after 20 countries

had ratified (or agreed to be bound by) it

  • States must report progress every four years
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CEDAW Committee

  • Assesses progress by states signed up to CEDAW
  • Issues general recommendations
  • Considers complaints from individual women or

groups of women against states (the Optional Protocol)

  • Investigates widespread/systematic violations of

women's rights

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Role of state equality machinery

  • The Equality and Human Rights Commission is one
  • f the UK’s three national human rights institutions

(NHRIs) with ‘A’ status accreditation at the UN.

  • The EHRC gives the UN a ‘list of issues’
  • The Government Equalities Office is responsible for

producing the state report

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CEDAW Committee: 23 women's rights experts

  • Read their previous recommendations, the

state reports and shadow reports

  • Listen to evidence from states and NGOs
  • Question the Government
  • Make recommendations for action in their

concluding observations

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CEDAW SHADOW REPORTS

  • Engender Scotland
  • Women’s Equality Network Wales
  • Women’s Resource Centre England
  • Max 6,600 words – about 14 pages
  • Article by article OR thematic
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Timeline

  • UK Government report sent to the UN

December 2017

  • Consultation on shadow reports

February 2018

  • Shadow reports sent

June 2018

  • ‘List of Issues’ sent

July 2018

  • Committee meets and agrees key issues

July 2018

  • State reply/updated shadow reports

Oct-Jan 2019

  • Committee examines the UK

February 2019

  • Concluding observations issued

March 2019

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CEDAW Committee’s last concluding

  • bservations
  • Better access to courts
  • Ratify the Istanbul Convention
  • Make forced marriage a crime
  • A national action plan on trafficking
  • Better mental health care in prison
  • End occupational segregation
  • Close the gender pay gap