Women's Right to Equality: The Promise of CEDAW
This paper enshrines the concept of equality through CEDAW to provide a resource for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission (AICHR) in its engagement with the ASEAN governments using international standards in promoting and protecting the human rights of women and girl children. With the exception of Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore who have no reservation to the substantive articles of CEDAW, most of the ASEAN countries have ratified CEDAW and have undertaken binding obligations to promote and protect the human rights of women according CEDAW standards.
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Geographic coverage:
Thailand
Subject areas:
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Human rights
Women’s rights
Resource type(s):
Manuals and tools
Publication year
2014
Number of pages
39
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
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