New Database Additions  Short Summary 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) Publication Date January 2002 Publisher American Bar Association Summary In 2002, the American Bar Association Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA CEELI) developed the CEDAW Assessment Tool as a resource to measure the status of women through the lens of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The CEDAW Assessment Tool examines a nation's laws and measures the degree to which these laws protect the rights of women as mandated by CEDAW. It is designed to uncover both the legal obstacles that frustrate the achievement of greater gender equality, and the degree to which, in practice, women are accorded the rights and status guaranteed to them under CEDAW. To date, ABA CEELI has conducted the CEDAW Assessment Tool in Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Serbia and Moldova. The assessment tool has several components, which: • Explain the meaning of each article of the convention and offer examples of compliance and non-compliance with CEDAW by States' Parties; • Provide questions designed to assess how closely a country's legislative regime adheres to the requirements of CEDAW; • Provide questions designed to guide an analysis of CEDAW compliance; • Outline a standardised format for recording the results of an assessment of a State Parties compliance with CEDAW. Document file size: 970 KB Complete Document View PDF (Portable Document Format)