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Short Summary
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| Title |
Producing NGO Shadow Reports to CEDAW: A Procedural
Guide (English, Spanish and Arabic) |
| Author |
International Women’s Right Action Watch (IWRAW) |
| Publication
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June 2003 |
| Publisher |
International Women’s Right Action Watch (IWRAW) |
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Short Summary |
How can NGOs work to ensure that governments
are implementing international law to protect women's rights? International
Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) have released this practical guide
for NGOs who wish to use CEDAW to hold their governments accountable
for upholding and enforcing women's rights. CEDAW is enforced through
a reporting mechanism and IWRAW encourages the submission of shadow
reports by NGOs working to promote women's rights to ensure that governments
are accountable to their own constituents as well as to the United
Nations. This manual offers a proposed timeline for NGO activity and
guidelines on how to organise the shadow report. The measures that
NGOs must take to ensure that the report is thorough include obtaining
the government report and coordinating and collaborating with other
NGOs that may have similar concerns, to strengthen the submission.
The manual concludes with a detailed outline of how the report should
be presented, and how NGOs might work most effectively with the CEDAW
Committee once at the UN. This document is available in English and
Spanish via the iwraw website. It is also available in Arabic by contacting:
UNIFEM ASRO: amman@unifem.org.jo
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| Complete Document |
 http://iwraw.igc.org/shadow.htm
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