Time for Action: Implementing CEDAW in Southeast Asia

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List of Boxes and Panels Summary of the articles of CEDAW XXXVI Stakeholder reflections: How much did we know about CEDAW? 2 What is direct and indirect discrimination? 5 Lessons learned: Early challenges to gender mainstreaming 6 The Philippines: Advocating for gender-responsive budgets 8 Lessons learned: The challenge of moving from national to 16 ground level responses Men against violence against women 20 Thai hill tribe women ‘go out’ into public life 28 Young journalists as anti-discrimination advocates 34 Temporary special measures 37 Getting legislators on board 54 Knowledge exchange between legislators from the 60 Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam Publicizing the Lao PDR women’s law 62 Developing tools to assess compliance of domestic 68 laws with CEDAW Thailand: Assessing gender bias in judicial decision-making 72 A model court for domestic violence 77 What is OP-CEDAW? 78 Seeking justice through OP-CEDAW inquiry 82 Overview of CEDAW reporting in Southeast Asia 88 Timor-Leste reports to CEDAW 94 Tips on Preparing for the CEDAW Review Session 100 The Philippines: Lessons learned from the shadow reporting process 104 Law students in Lao PDR become gender advocates 115 Building the capacity of Acehnese activists to influence local law reform 121 Lessons learned: Effective training 125 Government-NGO engagement on capacity-building 130 VI Time For Action Implementing CEDAW in Southeast Asia
List of Abbreviations ADKASI CAMBOW CEDAW CEDAW SEAP CIDA CNCW CPWP CWGI FFW FPMP GAD GMAG IWRAW-AP LWU MDGs MOWA NCAW NCRFW NGO NHRC NWM OHCHR OP-CEDAW OWAFD PJA PKKK SEPI UP-CWS VMU WAGI WAY Lampang WLB WNGRG Association of Indonesian Regency Legislative Councils (Indonesia) Cambodian Committee of Women United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women UNIFEM CEDAW Southeast Asia Programme Canadian International Development Agency Cambodian National Council for Women Committee to Promote Women in Politics (Cambodia) CEDAW Working Group Initiative (Indonesia) Foundation for Women (Thailand) Forum Pemerhati Masalah Perempuan (Indonesia) Gender and Development Gender Mainstreaming Action Groups International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific Lao Women’s Union Millennium Development Goals Ministry of Women’s Affairs (Cambodia) National Commission for the Advancement of Women (Lao PDR) National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women non-governmental organization National Human Rights Commission (Thailand) National Women’s Machinery Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Optional Protocol to CEDAW Office of Women’s Affairs and Family Development, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (Thailand) Philippine Judicial Academy Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (the Philippines) Office of the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality University of the Philippines Centre for Women’s Studies Village Mediation Unit (Lao PDR) Women and Gender Institute of Miriam College (the Philippines) Association for the Promotion of Lampang Women and Youth Development (Thailand) Women’s Legal Bureau (the Philippines) Women’s Network for Gender Responsive Governance (Thailand) Time For Action Implementing CEDAW in Southeast Asia VII
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