Without Prejudice: CEDAW and the Determination of Women's Rights in a Legal and Cultural Context

by Meena Shivdas (Editor), Sarah Coleman (Editor)

CEDAW – the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women – is a powerful international human rights instrument that reflects a global determination to achieve gender equality. Turning aspiration into reality presents many challenges, particularly in relation to the process of adjudicating on women’s rights in both legal and cultural contexts.

This book looks at the range of cultural and legal challenges relating to the implementation of CEDAW, and the individual approaches adopted in various jurisdictions and contexts across the Commonwealth. Commonwealth declarations in support of CEDAW and initiatives from numerous Commonwealth countries are brought together here to support continuing efforts to address these issues.

This practical guide will inform and assist judges, adjudicators, lawyers and activists to advance the implementation of the principles of CEDAW within jurisdictions connected historically by the application of the common law.

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Meena Shivdas is a gender and development specialist and adviser in the Gender Section of the Social Transformation Programmes Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

Reviews

[Orla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Without Prejudice is a very well put together discussion of CEDAW in the context of commonwealth countries, with a broad introduction to the topic and background. Perhaps a little superficial in some of its analysis.