{"id":2001,"date":"2022-11-30T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/equalitynow.org\/resource\/a-guide-to-advocating-for-womens-rights\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:53:49","slug":"a-guide-to-advocating-for-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/ru\/resource\/toolkits-for-csos\/a-guide-to-advocating-for-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to advocating for women\u2019s rights using international human rights mechanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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International human rights advocacy involves engaging with various UN mechanisms in order to advance the protection and promotion of the human rights of all women and girls. There are two types of human rights monitoring mechanisms within the United Nations system — treaty-based bodies and charter-based bodies.<\/p>\n

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To ensure that UN mechanisms have a realistic and accurate picture of the human rights situation in a particular country, civil society organisations and other entities, such as academic institutions, professional groups, and intergovernmental organisations, are encouraged to engage in human rights monitoring and reporting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Our Guide To Advocating For Women\u2019s Rights Using International Human Rights Mechanisms<\/em> offers information on the available mechanisms and different methods of engagement at the international level that you can use to push for greater protection of human rights, and women\u2019s and girls\u2019 rights in particular, in your country.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n

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Civil society organisations (CSOs) working locally and\/or nationally on the promotion and protection of women\u2019s and girls’ rights have several opportunities to engage in international advocacy. Their engagement is crucial in ensuring that these UN bodies provide effective recommendations to the government to improve the country’s human rights situation. CSOs are also vital to supporting the government\u2019s implementation of these recommendations.<\/p>\n

CSOs play a valuable role in bringing forward information about progress and challenges on the ground, and in ensuring that governments fulfil their part in upholding human rights for all women and girls, regardless of their ethnicity, disability, race, religion, or other status.<\/p>\n

UN-based treaty bodies and their functions<\/h3>\n

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Treaty-based bodies are committees of independent experts who monitor the implementation of the core international human rights treaties by reviewing reports submitted periodically by State parties. Most treaty bodies are also competent to receive and consider individual complaints (provided that the State has agreed to be subject to such procedures), and several may conduct broader specific inquiries relating to systemic and widespread abuse.<\/p>\n

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Among the ten existing human rights treaty-based bodies<\/a>, our Guide focuses on the six bodies which are most relevant to women\u2019s rights or have developed the most jurisprudence on issues affecting women.<\/p>\n

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