Monitoring Compliance of International Standards Relating to Human Rights: The Experience of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women

1984 ◽  
Vol 31 (03) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Noreen Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The Status ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Status Of Women

Part II Subsidiary Human Rights Organs, 7 The Commission on the Status of Women

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabasakal Arat Zehra F
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Status ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Operational Structure

This chapter describes the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which was the first international organ ever created to promote women’s rights and equality. The status of women has been on the agenda of the United Nations since its inception and typically addressed as an issue of discrimination in relation to human rights. As the UN’s work on human rights has evolved and expanded, so have its apparatuses and activities on the advancement of women’s rights and status. The CSW played a key role in drafting declarations and treaties that promote women’s rights, organizing world conferences on women, the development of other UN agencies that address women’s issues, and monitoring and evaluating the attention given to women by other agencies. The chapter examines and discusses the CSW’s operational structure, changing agenda, major accomplishments, the difficulties encountered by the Commission, and the controversies surrounding both its work and the UN approach to women’s issues.

scholarly journals THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AT CONSTITUTIONAL LEVEL

2016 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Марина Шелютто ◽  
Marina SHyelyutto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Venice Commission

The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 meant the international recognition of children as autonomous right-holders. The Convention includes practically all traditional human rights: civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, to which every child is entitled. The Report on the Protection of Children’s Rights: International Standards and Domestic Constitutions adopted by the Venice Commission in 2014 shows that national constitutions of some Council of Europe Member States have implemented the provisions of the Convention in different manner after its adoption. Some constitutions (the Russian Constitution is among them, too) reflect the traditional paternalistic approach (according to which children need protection) but not the rights-based approach. The inclusion in the Constitution of guarantees of rights for everyone may be insufficient to ensure respect for these rights for every child. The recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Venice Commission to include in national constitutions the key message that children are holders of human rights and the general principals of the Convention are topical for the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-594
Author(s):  
Ingrid Mattson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Group Position ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Status Of Women

Preparations for the FourthWorld Conference on WomenThe Economic and Social Council of the United Nations has beenvery active during the past year convening world conferences in order toredefm e its goals and strategies for international cooperation on majorissues. In September 1994, delegations from many nations met in Cairofor the International Conference on Population and Development. InMarch 1995, Copenhagen was the venue for the World Summit for SocialDevelopment. In September 1995, Beijing will be the setting for theFourth World Conference on the Status of Women. In preparation for thelatter conference, international delegations met in New York duringMarch and April to prepare the Platform for Action, which is to be ratifiedin Beijing. The draft document was prepared by the Secretariat of theCommission on the Status of Women after consultation with regionalgroups of the United Nations. In New York, delegations were to proposeamendments to the Platform for Action so that it would be ready for ratificationin Beijing. At least that was the plan. The following report willdescribe how political agendas, arrogance, and bickering prevented thetask from being completed. Perhaps the greatest obstacle, however, wasthe belief that every country in the world could reach consensus on somany contentious issues-there is a better chance of the holy grail beingfound this year.First, for those who are not familiar with the dynamics of the UnitedNations, I need to sketch out the role of the major players. On one side ofthe floor of the UN, members of the European Union (EU) huddle together;the representative from France is their spokesperson. On the other sideof the floor sits the representative from the Philippines, who is thespokesperson for the Group of 77 (077). The 077, which now actuallycomprises 132 members, includes almost all nations from Latin and SouthAmerica, Africa, and Asia. Members of the EU and the 077 meet in theirrespective groups before the main assembly convenes in order to formulatea group position. On the floor of the UN, it is therefore the spokespersonsof these two groups who are the most active.It is significant that while 132 diverse nations were able to meet and,in most cases, bring about a consensus on difficult issues, the United ...

scholarly journals Arab Internationalism and Gender: Perspectives from the Third Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1949

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 578-583
Author(s):  
Nova Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Status ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

Historians of the Middle East have used gender to explore a range of topics, from how crises around gendered practices have contributed to the construction of national identities to women's roles in nationalist movements. Whereas early gender histories focused on single nation-states, recent scholarship has turned to regional and transnational connections. Yet the international sphere, the domain of nation-states and nongovernmental organizations in relation to each other, has yet to be examined through the lens of gender. In this essay, I argue that doing so yields new insights into the relationship between the national and the international in the Middle East, and into the process of rights claiming in postcolonial nation-states. I make this argument through a discussion of the third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).

Anglican Women: Empowering Each other to Further God's Kingdom

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-68
Author(s):  
Mary Sudman Donovan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Status ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Status Of Women

ABSTRACTIn February 2006, women from every province of the Anglican Communion gathered in New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Once assembled, they established an organizational structure to perpetuate their gathering and called for an expanded women's presence on all Anglican Communion governing bodies. This article traces the development of the group, showing how a few women used the political structures of the Anglican Communion–the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, the Anglican Consultative Council and the International Anglican Women's Network–to assemble Anglican women. It demonstrates that the experience of meeting together became a source of empowerment for the participants and analyzes the factors contributing to the venture's success so that they might serve as models for the Anglican Communion as it struggles to maintain unity while embracing diversity.

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Resolution 234 on the Right to Nationality

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-417
Author(s):  
Horace S. Adjolohoun
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Status ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

The right to a nationality is well established in international human rights law. In 1954 and 1961, the United Nations adopted the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, respectively. Inspired by Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the two Conventions provide for a right to nationality and prohibit deprivation or denial of nationality. In 2012, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) drafted four guidelines on statelessness that expand on provisions of the 1954 and 1961 UN Conventions. They contain guidance sections directed specifically at governments, civil society organizations, legal practitioners, decision-makers and the judiciary as well as UNHCR and other UN agency staff involved in addressing statelessness.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 1982–1997: A Study of “Targeted” Resolutions

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Consensus Decision Making ◽  
Consensus Decision

AbstractThis article examines resolutions passed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 1982 to 1997, which targeted specific states, governments and other political actors for violations of human rights. The types of actors that were named, their regional distribution and the actions taken by the Commission are each analyzed. Among the findings presented are that the Commission's effectiveness has been limited by its inability to address most systematic government violations of human rights, by a lack of universality in its application of international standards and by a recent trend toward consensus decision making.

scholarly journals Towards a Human Rights — Based Contraceptive Policy; A Critique of Anti-Sterilisation Law in Poland

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Informed Choice ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Reproductive Choice ◽  
Patient Level ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Reproductive Health Policy ◽  
Status Of Women

AbstractSterilisation is one of the safest, most effective and most widely used method of family planning in the world. However, it is illegal and inaccessible in Poland. This paper argues that implications of the anti-sterilisation policy in Poland amount to a violation of human rights, especially the right to respect for private and family life and the right to equality. It also explores this question with regard to the right to health. In particular, the argument goes, the rights-based challenges to the criminal prohibition of sterilisation require a gender-sensitive perspective on contraceptive policy that recognises the intimate connection between reproductive choice and the status of women. Certain concerns associated with contraceptive sterilisation (e.g. fear of abuse or post-sterilisation regret) would be addressed more appropriately by less restrictive measures that respect rights of individuals and better respond to their needs - in particular a system of counselling, confining decisions about sterilisation to the doctor-patient level and basing them on free and informed choice. The paper concludes that sterilisation policy should be part of the comprehensive reproductive health policy built upon respect for human rights and principles of equality and public health, as opposed to the present Polish government's policy, which is ideologically driven and does not conform to international standards.

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