ACHIEVING FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF CEDAW

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ACHIEVING FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF CEDAW

• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
• of Discrimination against Women

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Taking Action on the CEDAW
Committees concluding comments

• on the Zealand Governments 6th Periodic
• Report considered on 2 August 2007
• Before the next report is made in September 2010
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• A huge amount of work to be done largely
• due to NGO reporting
• NGOs reports were valued and the Committee
• listened to our concerns in New York

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The concluding comments are a tribute to
NGO efforts but .

• Carry the responsibility of ensuring we push for
  further implementation
• The measure of our success will be positive
  action shown by the Government in its next report
  in 2010

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Principal areas of concern and
recommendations are on three levels

• 1. Principles and means by which further
• implementation can be achieved
• 2. Education and advocacy
• 3. Critical issues of concern on which
• implementation is still to be achieved

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1. Principles and means .

• Tracking trends over time on the actual situation
  of different groups of women
• Monitoring of progress through measurable
  indicators - use of benchmarks, targets,
  incentives
• and quotas, recruitment and support
  programmes
• Advocating for temporary special measures to
  accelerate achievement
• Strengthening of data collection

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2. Education and advocacy .

• Ask Ministers and MPs if they are familiar with
  the Committees concluding comments
• Advocacy for strengthening prohibitions against
  direct and indirect discrimination against women
• Education on comprehensive scope of CEDAW,
  especially equality between women and men

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Education and advocacy cont.

• Updates of action plans for women should be based
  on CEDAW and linked
• Publicise Optional Protocol to CEDAW as a means
  of redress
• Enhancement of legal education and training for
  all lawyers, judges, and law enforcement officers
  recommended

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Critical issues of concern for further
implementation

• Media portrayal stereotyping, negativity
• Employment equal pay, equal opportunity,
• occupational segregation, wage gap
• Labour market minorities disadvantaged
• Violence against women special groups, refugee
  and migrant women trafficking
• Education voluntary school payments

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Critical Issues

• Decision-making positions inconsistency
• Seasonal workers paid parental leave
• Rural health care
• Womens access to justice
• Sex education, prevention of STDs
• Property (Relationships) Act research and
• analysis of impacts of new property division

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CEDAW as a catalyst for
comprehensive action

• Full and effective implementation of CEDAW is
• indispensable to achieving the Millennium
• Development Goals and action on the Beijing
• Platform
• NGOs must push for New Zealand to ratify the
  Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
  Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families