United Nations CEDAW

📌📌”States parties to the CEDAW Convention failing to pay assessed contributions therefore severely undermine their obligations to respect and ensure the rights of women and girls as well as to respect the mandate of the Committee.”

Read statement🔗 ohchr.org/en/statements-…

Men and boys must participate in gender equality and women’s rights initiatives! Male leadership is essential to dismantling patriarchal stereotypes. Check out this video presentation by the MenEngage Global Alliance civil society organization. CEDAW Committee's GR41 October 23

#GR41 launch @bandanarana2014 “Violence against women does not begin with the first blow. It begins much earlier, with the belief that women are inferior to men. That men are entitled to control them. That women must obey and that society had the right to judge their choices.”

📌@CedawUn State Parties are meeting in @UNGeneva with #CEDAWCommittee to launch the landmark #GR41 on Gender Stereotypes & for an update on the Committee’s achievements/activities for women&girls globally🌏. @UN_Women @vanyaradzayi @unwomenchief @bandanarana2014

📌📌The @CedawUn adopted a landmark General Recommendation on Gender Stereotypes #GR41. State parties addressing #genderstereotypes is a legal obligation in line with the #CEDAWConvention . Thank you @UN_Women @UNHumanRights Marion Bethel, Rhoda Reddock, @bandanarana2014 & CSOs