CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional Discrimination

ABSTRACT CEDAW is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination and achieving gender equality so that all women can exercise and enjoy their human rights. This article argues that this implicitly includes a commitment to understanding and addressing intersectional discrimination. Women experi...

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Main Author: Meghan Campbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito
Series:Revista Direito GV
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-24322015000200479&lng=en&tlng=en
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description ABSTRACT CEDAW is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination and achieving gender equality so that all women can exercise and enjoy their human rights. This article argues that this implicitly includes a commitment to understanding and addressing intersectional discrimination. Women experience disadvantage and discrimination based on their sex and gender and that is inextricably linked to other identities, factors and experiences such as a race and poverty. Under CEDAW, if sex and gender is one of the bases for the discrimination, it is necessary to examine how other identity and factors contribute to gender discrimination and inequality. The CEDAW Committee has been pioneering this approach in the General Recommendations, Individual Communications, Inquiry Procedure and Concluding Observations, but it has not been consistently applying this fluid and expansive approach. The article poses three complementary solutions to these inconsistencies: a transformative equality analytical framework, a General Recommendation on intersectionality and workshops and training for CEDAW Committee members.
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spelling doaj.art-b61075f0aa15436cade125a4b0cedcea2025-02-02T22:04:12ZengFundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de DireitoRevista Direito GV2317-617211247950410.1590/1808-2432201521S1808-24322015000200479CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional DiscriminationMeghan CampbellABSTRACT CEDAW is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination and achieving gender equality so that all women can exercise and enjoy their human rights. This article argues that this implicitly includes a commitment to understanding and addressing intersectional discrimination. Women experience disadvantage and discrimination based on their sex and gender and that is inextricably linked to other identities, factors and experiences such as a race and poverty. Under CEDAW, if sex and gender is one of the bases for the discrimination, it is necessary to examine how other identity and factors contribute to gender discrimination and inequality. The CEDAW Committee has been pioneering this approach in the General Recommendations, Individual Communications, Inquiry Procedure and Concluding Observations, but it has not been consistently applying this fluid and expansive approach. The article poses three complementary solutions to these inconsistencies: a transformative equality analytical framework, a General Recommendation on intersectionality and workshops and training for CEDAW Committee members.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-24322015000200479&lng=en&tlng=enIntersectionalitygrounds-based discriminationCEDAWgenderpovertyinternational human rights law
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CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional Discrimination
Revista Direito GV
Intersectionality
grounds-based discrimination
CEDAW
gender
poverty
international human rights law
title CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional Discrimination
title_full CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional Discrimination
title_fullStr CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional Discrimination
title_full_unstemmed CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional Discrimination
title_short CEDAW and Women’s Intersecting Identities: A Pioneering New Approach to Intersectional Discrimination
title_sort cedaw and women s intersecting identities a pioneering new approach to intersectional discrimination
topic Intersectionality
grounds-based discrimination
CEDAW
gender
poverty
international human rights law
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-24322015000200479&lng=en&tlng=en
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