Judicial Colloquium on Access to justice for Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in South East Asia
Malaysia
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Event type: Conferences, meetings, symposiums
Start date: 27 September 2014 | Start time: 01:00 UTC +00:00
End date: 28 September 2014 | End time: 09:00 UTC +00:00
Location:
Hotel Seri Pacific,
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Event description
Objectives of the Judicial Colloquium:
- To build on regional efforts towards strengthening women’s access to justice through a thematic lens reflective of the current contexts and challenges that affect women’s equal enjoyment of human rights within South East Asia;
- To enhance understanding amongst judges on existing standards and principles under international human rights treaty law in relation to justiciability of women’s ESC rights;
- To promote holistic interpretation and implementation of human rights principles by judges so as to secure the full benefit of the constitutional protection for women claiming violations of ESC rights;
- To enable open forums of discussions regarding best practices, challenges and obstacles in adjudicating cases relating to ESC rights in general and examining the impact of resulting jurisprudence on women’s enjoyment of ESC rights at the domestic level.
Outputs of the Colloquium will be as follows:
- Greater pool of peer advocates amongst the judges within the region on issues relating to women’s ESC rights
- Compilation of positive examples and best practices within the region including – best practices in adjudication of cases relating to women’s ESC rights; best practices on use of human rights principles in adjudication of ESC rights cases in general (i.e. cases without specific claims of sex discrimination) with potential impact on enhancing women’s access to justice for similar violations relating to education, health employment and land and property rights; best practices on implementation of international standards and principles of women’s human rights and gender equality in judicial pronouncements/ judgements which hold potential in impacting claims relating to women’s ESC rights.
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Contact person: Pimvadee Keaokiriya
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