It introduces parliaments to the Convention and the work of the CEDAW Committee, a watchdog body made up of experts that monitors implementation and progress reported by countries as well as responding to complaints. The handbook demonstrates how parliaments can use the CEDAW Convention as a framework for advancing gender equality, and the human rights of women and girls. And the World Economic Forum has calculated that women globally earn around 37% less than men in similar roles and that progress on closing the gender pay gap is extremely slow. According to the World Bank, women and girls only hold 77% of the legal rights of men and boys. IPU data shows that the proportion of women in parliament, despite steady increases over the past few years, has stagnated at around 26%. Gender-based discrimination against women is widespread across the world. It also encourages parliamentarians to lead the way when it comes to promoting women’s rights.
The new handbook is intended to help parliamentarians translate the Convention into concrete parliamentary action through law-making, budget allocation and parliamentary oversight of government actions. More than four decades after its adoption, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) remains an essential tool for achieving gender equality and protecting women’s rights in all walks of life – from the family and the classroom to executive boards and political leadership roles. Twenty years after the first edition, the IPU and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have published a new version of a handbook for parliamentarians on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol.
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