Members and Friends Meeting - Women’s Rights and CEDAW, 6 October 2016
Thursday, October 06, 2016
National Women’s Council of Ireland
The UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Members and Friends Meeting - Women’s Rights and CEDAW, 6 October 2016
Ireland’s commitment to the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, (CEDAW), will next be examined in early 2017. As part of this process, the State submitted, on the 15 September 2016, a written response to a list of issues identified by an independent expert body within the United Nations, (the CEDAW Committee). (See here for Ireland’s combined sixth and seventh periodic Report to the UN CEDAW Committee, along with an Annex of statistical data.)
NWCI considers CEDAW to be an extremely important tool to aid the advancement of women’s rights in Ireland, as it provides a framework by which Ireland can take responsibility for confronting and eliminating (often embedded and historical) discrimination against women. As part of our ongoing work in relation to CEDAW, NWCI is hosting a two part event on the 6th of October, consisting of a seminar to be followed by a round table discussion.
The purpose of the seminar is to highlight the importance of CEDAW, its relationship to Ireland and the women’s movement as well as highlighting the practical ways it can be harnessed for campaigning and lobbying work. In that respect the seminar will be addressed by
• Violeta Neubauer, independent women’s human rights and gender equality expert from Slovenia who was a member of the CEDAW Committee from 2007 to 2014, The Importance and Relevance of CEDAW
• Dr. Patricia Conlan, chair of the Feminism and International Law Committee of the International Law Association, Ireland and CEDAW – some contemporary developments
• Sinéad Lucey, Managing Solicitor FLAC (the Free Legal Advice Centres), Harnessing CEDAW – a practitioner’s guide to using international complaint mechanisms
The Round Table Event is designed to obtain attendees reactions to the official State Report to the CEDAW Committee. It is also an important opportunity to highlight any issues that you or your organisation would like to see reflected in NWCI’s Shadow Report to the CEDAW Committee.
Date: 6th of October 2016,
Registration for the event will take place from 10am and proceedings will start at 10.30am. A light lunch will be served at 1pm and round table consultation sessions will run from 2pm to 4pm.
Venue: Oak Room in the Mansion House, 2 Dawson St, Dublin 2.
To register for the event please follow the link here
If you have any queries please contact Denise Roche at deniser@nwci.ie
Kindly supported by the Irish Women Lawyers’ Association
Starts: 6 October 2016 10:00
Ends: 6 October 2016 16:00
Location: Oak Room, The Mansion House, Dawson St, Dublin 2