Search / Search Results Date Added to Site: 6th May 2003     Short Summary Title CEDAW and Women’s Health in International Relations Author Women's Rights Watch Publication Date January 2003 Publisher The Netherlands Humanist Committee on Human Rights (HOM) Short Summary This report describes the initiative of the Humanist Committee on Human Rights to develop a women's human rights impact assessment instrument for international relations, using the CEDAW. Women's right to health is chosen as a pilot theme. Although the relationship between CEDAW and gender/human rights impact assessment for development policy is a new area, it is believed that CEDAW can be useful to both Northern and Southern organisations as a basis for an impact assessment tool. The Convention offers a list of standards and principles that help to address relevant issues and can be used as indicators. The CEDAW reporting process also provides access to information about the level of implementation at country level, which can be used for gender impact assessment. All these have importance at the local (organisations), national and international levels. Complete Document View MS Word Document