New Database Additions Displaying Results: 1 to 20  1. Date Added to Site: Saturday, 28th March 2009 Title Guidelines for a Gender Analysis: Human Rights with a Gender Perspective, Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women Author San Francisco CEDAW Task Force/Commission on the Status of Women Document Type Tool Publication Date January 2000 Summary This tool provides guidelines, methodology, support materials and suggestions to conduct participatory gender analysis of budget allocations at local government level, with particular reference to the City of San Francisco, United States. View Short Summary 2. Date Added to Site: Friday, 19th April 2002 Title A Handbook on CEDAW, The Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Author Tomasevski, Katarina Document Type Guide Publication Date June 2000 Summary This handbook on the CEDAW aims to familiarise international development co- operation personnel with the human rights obligations of individual states with regard to women. View Short Summary 3. Date Added to Site: Friday, 20th January 2006 Title Gender and Citizenship: What Does a Rights Framework Offer Women? Author Huq, S. Document Type Case Study Publication Date October 2000 Summary This article describes how the CEDAW and the ICPD were used an NGO in Bangladesh to mobilise around issues of violence against women and reproductive health. View Short Summary 4. Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 27th June 2007 Title The CEDAW Assessment Tool: An Assessment Tool Based on the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Author American Bar Association, Central and East European Law Initiative (ABA CEELI) Document Type Tool Publication Date January 2002 Summary This CEDAW Assessment Tool examines a nation's laws and measures the degree to which these laws protect the rights of women as mandated by the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). View Short Summary 5. Date Added to Site: Thursday, 23rd January 2003 Title The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Optional Protocol Author Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Document Type Tool Publication Date June 2002 Summary This primer provides a basic introduction and overview of the Convention, its new Optional Protocol, and suggestions on how they can be used in projects for equality and development. View Short Summary 6. Date Added to Site: Thursday, 15th August 2002 Title Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (English, Chinese and Russian) Author United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Document Type Tool Publication Date June 2002 Summary This book explains how women's human rights can be put to work to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective. View Short Summary 7. Date Added to Site: Friday, 13th February 2004 Title Women Hold Up Half the Sky Author The People’s Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE) Document Type Tool Publication Date January 2003 Summary This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives View Short Summary 8. Date Added to Site: Tuesday, 6th May 2003 Title CEDAW and Women’s Health in International Relations Author Women's Rights Watch Document Type Report Publication Date January 2003 Summary This report describes the Netherlands Humanist Committee on Human Rights' (HOM) initiative to develop a women's human rights impact assessment instrument for international relations, using the CEDAW. View Short Summary 9. Date Added to Site: Tuesday, 28th October 2003 Title Steps for Effective Advocacy Author International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific Document Type Tool Publication Date October 2003 Summary This guide helps NGOs in the Asia Pacific region engaged in advocacy work to participate in the CEDAW review process, and includes guidelines on writing shadow/alternative reports. View Short Summary 10. Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 20th October 2004 Title A Guide to Indigenous Women’s Rights under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (in English, French and Spanish) Author Kambel, E. Document Type Guide Publication Date January 2004 Summary This practical guide explores the procedures by which indigenous women can use the CEDAW to hold states accountable for human rights violations. View Short Summary 11. Date Added to Site: Friday, 20th January 2006 Title Annotated CEDAW Bibliography Author International Women's Rights Project (IWRP) Document Type Bibliography Publication Date June 2004 Summary This bibliography is a compilation of resources relating to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). View Short Summary 12. Date Added to Site: Thursday, 14th April 2005 Title Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries: Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Author Hartl, M. Document Type Tool Publication Date June 2004 Summary Articles 15 and 16 of CEDAW state the rights of women to property and inheritance. This report is a tool to help non-governmental organisations and multilateral agencies in advocacy and policy dialogue using CEDAW. View Short Summary 13. Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 20th October 2004 Title Fact Sheet No. 22, Discrimination against Women: The Convention and the Committee Author Office of the High Commissioner Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Document Type Background Document Publication Date June 2004 Summary This Fact Sheet explains the substantive provisions of the CEDAW and provides an overview of the structure and functioning of the CEDAW Committee. View Short Summary 14. Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 27th June 2007 Title CEDAW Indicators for South Asia Author UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office/CENWOR Document Type Guide Publication Date August 2004 Summary This resource provides qualitative and quantitative indicators for monitoring the implementation of CEDAW by South Asian countries in the several sectors. View Short Summary 15. Date Added to Site: Sunday, 1st May 2005 Title Pathway to Gender Equality: CEDAW, Beijing, and the MDGs Author Waldorf, L. (research by Inglis, S.) Document Type Report Publication Date October 2004 Summary This report offers three ways to enhance the synergy between CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action, and the MDGs. View Short Summary 16. Date Added to Site: Sunday, 7th November 2004 Title Gender, the Millennium Development Goals, and Human Rights in the Context of the 2005 Review Process Author Painter, G. Document Type Report Publication Date October 2004 Summary This paper argues that achievement of the MDGs is both an indication of, as well as necessity for the realisation of human rights, because the MDGs correspond to states' existing human rights obligations found in the CEDAW, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA). View Short Summary 17. Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 1st June 2005 Title Focus on Human Rights and Gender Justice: Linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action Author Neuhold, B. Document Type Guide Publication Date February 2005 Summary This report describes the basic processes, strengths, weaknesses and links between the Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW and the MDGs. View Short Summary 18. Date Added to Site: Tuesday, 14th March 2006 Title Violence Against and Trafficking in Women as Symptoms of Discrimination: the Potential of CEDAW as an Antidote Document Type Report Publication Date December 2005 Summary This paper provides an overview of trafficking in women and discusses how CEDAW can be used to combat this growing phenomenon. View Short Summary 19. Date Added to Site: Friday, 1st February 2008 Title Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW Author Elson, D. Document Type Report Publication Date May 2006 Summary How can gender budget analysis help to monitor government compliance with CEDAW? How can CEDAW help to provide guidance for gender-sensitive budget initiatives (GBIs)? View Short Summary 20. Date Added to Site: Thursday, 27th September 2007 Title Translating CEDAW into Law. CEDAW Legislative Compliance in Nine Pacific Island Countries Author Jivan, V. and Forster, C. Document Type Report Publication Date May 2007 Summary This report assesses to what extent the national laws of nine Pacific countries comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). View Short Summary