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2. What is CEDAW?
CONVENTION ON ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS
OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMAN

3. CEDAW - History
 Adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly
 Often described as an international bill of rights for women
 Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles
 Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the
United Nations
 At the special ceremony that took place at the Copenhagen
Conference on 17 July 1980, 64 States signed the
Convention and two States submitted their instruments of
ratification.
 On 3 September 1981, 30 days after the twentieth member
State had ratified it, the Convention entered into force -
faster than any previous human rights convention

4. CEDAW
STATE
OBLIGATION
SUBSTANTIVE
EQUALITY
NON
DISCRIMINATION

5. SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY

6. SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY

7. SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY
 MEN are no longer food providers, WOMEN too work
 Many women are Divorced, widowed, abandoned,
single mothers

8. SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY
REALITY v. GOALS

9. SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY

10. FORMAL APPROACH
 Following Male Standard, disregarding female needs

11. FORMAL APPROACH

12. PROTECTIONIST APPROACH

14. CORRECTIVE APPROACH
 Providing Safe Environment at workplace

15. CORRECTIVE APPROACH

16. SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY

17. STATE OBLIGATION
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18. STATE OBLIGATION

19. NON DISCRIMINATION
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