This user friendly primer is a first easy reference for grassroots and national level civil society organisations to understand the linkages between the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) and The UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGP). CEDAW was adopted by the General Assembly in 1979 and came into force in 1981. In June 2011, the Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles and created a new special mechanism, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. This creative booklet is the result of numerous requests from NGOs wanting to constructively engage with businesses and corporations. We hope this primer will help users to understand and discover the effective mechanisms to promote and advance women’s human rights. A more detailed and complementing text document can be downloaded at our IWRAW official website: http://www.iwraw-ap.org/. We would like to thank contributors who had attended our Regional Consultation on Exploring the Engagement with Non-State Actors using CEDAW (December 2012). We would also like to express our appreciation to Frances House and Katharine Jones from the Institute of Human Rights and Business (IHRB) that provided the initial expert advice on UNGP for the 2012 Consultation.
We are especially grateful to Amy Lynne Locklear (consultant & former IWRAW a programme officer) and Kathryn Dovey (Research Fellow–Gender, Institute for Human Rights and Business), who researched and authored this primer. Without them, this primer would not have been possible.
Our appreciation also goes to Dorathy Stanislaus Benjamin who coordinated, edited and designed this primer as part of IWRAW Asia Pacific’s strategy to facilitate the exchange of ideas on CEDAW. Part of the strategy is also to build the capacity of local and national level activists and groups in the use of different tools for the promotion and advancement of women’s human rights. We also appreciate the generous support of Oxfam Novib which made the production of this primer possible.
We hope that this primer will genuinely fulfill the expressed needs of our partners and we would truly welcome users to provide us with feedback and suggestions so that we may continue to improve our skills and capacity to support and equip CSOs/NGOs in the promotion and advancement of women’s human rights. You can send your feedback to us at Оваа е-адреса е заштитена од спамботови. Треба да ви е овозможено JavaScript за да ја видите.
The International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) is an independent, non-profit NGO in Special Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. IWRAW facilitates and monitors the implementation of CEDAW around the world.
The business of Women`s Human Rights
Извор: WUNRN – 07.05.2014
