This session of the seminar will discuss the work of the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), including reviewing the
most recent 87th session held in Geneva from 29 January to 16 February 2024.
Questions
covered
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- How are women's rights
enforced through CEDAW?
- How did the issue of
violence against women get defined?
- What is the role of
the Secretariat in dealing with women's rights?
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Lectures
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Required
readings
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- McFarland, Chapters
4, 14, 21,
- Richard K. Ghere, NGO Leadership and Human Rights, Chapter
7, Gender and Rights Advancement.
- Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
- UN Women, Commission on the Status of Women,
especially 62nd session.
- Commission on the
Status of Women, Results
of the sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth sessions of the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women (E/CN.6/2018/12)
- Draft
update of General Recommendation No 19 (1992) on gender
based violence against women
- Report of the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Eighty-seventh
session (29 January-16 February 2024 (In course Canvas)
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Recommended
readings
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- John Mathiason, The
Long March to Beijing, Volume 1, the Vienna Years, Chapter 8,
Violence against Women and Chapter 6.4 "Coping with CEDAW" (In
the course Canvas)
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Discussion
questions
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- Why was violence
against women not included in the Convention?
- Why is the reservation
on Sharia Law considered either good or problematic?
- How has the
Secretariat helped make the Convention effective?
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Simulation
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- We will review the
report of Oman, one group being the government, one the committee, one
an NGO and one the Secretariat.
Documents are in the Canvas.
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Recording
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- Recordings of 11 and 13
March will be in the course Canvas.
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