CEDAW Egypt

CEDAW Egypt

This assignment is to help you understand and explain Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), one of the most prominent global efforts to address discrimination against women. To complete the assignment, you will compare reports about a country’s government and the text of CEDAW to evaluate whether the country has fulfilled the commitment to signing and ratifying CEDAW while providing evidence to support conclusion. Use the worksheet steps in this document to help you fulfill the assignment; you may choose to fill out the worksheet sections or convert your assignment as a paper using the worksheet as your guide. Key places to find information to complete the assignment: • United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cedaw/pages/cedawindex.aspx • Advocates for Human Rights’ website: advrights.org Step 1: Read through the information provided on the United Nations’ Human Rights website and use the “Country-specific information” search function to find government and nongovernmental reports for various countries. After reviewing the many countries and their reports, choose one country that has signed and ratified CEDAW, whose government/state has submitted at least one CEDAW report, and where a non-governmental organization (NGO) has also submitted a shadow report about that country for that same reporting timeframe (e.g. 2017). MAKE SURE YOU RESEARCH ENOUGH COUNTRIES AND THEIR CEDAW REPORTS BEFORE MAKING A SELECTION. Read through the assignment to know if a country’s set of reports will help you complete the assignment. Country: Reason for choosing this country Report title and URL (government/state report): Report title and URL (NGO/shadow report): Step 2: Answer the following about CEDAW and the country you chose.

a) What is CEDAW and why is it significant to addressing gender violence in a global perspective? b) What does it mean for a country to have signed CEDAW? c) What it means for a country to have ratified CEDAW? d) In what year or years did the country you chose for this assignment sign CEDAW and ratify it? e) What does it mean for a country to have reservations in its signing and/or ratification of CEDAW? f) In the country you chose for this assignment, which reservations, if any, did the government/state declare that you find problematic for the advancement of women’s and girls’ human rights? Why do you find the reservation(s) problematic? Step 3: Summarize the claims and evidence for both the government/state report and the NGO/shadow’s report regarding the country’s (a) progress and (b) challenges in fulfilling CEDAW. Put arguments and their evidence in separate rows. Add more rows if needed. a) Progress Claims of progress Evidence Government/state report NGO/shadow report b) Challenges Claims of challenges Evidence Government/state report NGO/shadow report Step 4: Answer the following to analyze and interpret the reports. a) Comparing the government/state report to the NGO/shadow report, what similarities are there in the country’s progress in fulfilling CEDAW and advancing human rights of women and girls? b) Comparing the government/state report to the NGO/shadow report, what differences are there in the country’s progress in fulfilling CEDAW and advancing human rights of women and girls? c) Based on the claims and evidence, which report (government/state or the NGO) makes the most compelling case and why? d) If you were on the CEDAW review committee, what would you recommend for this country to do to fulfill its CEDAW commitment?