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CEDAW Impact collection

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Fredman, S. (2015) ‘The CEDAW in the UK’, in Hellum, A. and Aasen, H.S. (eds.), Women’s Human Rights. CEDAW in International, Regional, and National Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 511-530.

Petersen, C. and Samuels, H. (2002) ‘The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Comparison of Its Implementation and the Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong’, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 26(1).

United Republic of Tanzania

Bond, J. (2014) ‘CEDAW in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons in Implementation’, Michigan State Law Review: 241-263.

Ikdahl, I. (2010) Securing women’s homes. The dynamics of women’s human rights at the international level and in Tanzania, PhD thesis, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.

Calaguas, M.; Frost, C.; and Fluet, E. (2007) ‘Legal Pluralism and Women’s Rights: A Study in Postcolonial Tanzania’, 16 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 471.

Freeman, M. A. (1994) ‘Women, law, and land at the local level: claiming women's human rights in domestic legal systems’, Human Rights Quarterly, 16(3): 559-75. 

United States of America

Och, M. (2018) 'The local diffusion of international human rights norms – understanding the cities for CEDAW campaign', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 20(3): 425-443. DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2018.1447312

Baldez, L. (2014) Defying Convention: U.S. Resistance to the U.N. Treaty on Women’s Rights (New York: Cambridge University Press).

McPhedran, M. (2014) ‘Complements of CEDAW: U.S. Foreign Policy Coherence on Women’s Human Rights and Human Security’, Michigan State Law Review: 281-308.

Lozner, S. L. (2004) ‘Diffusion of Local Regulatory Innovations: The San Francisco CEDAW Ordinance and the New York City Human Rights Initiative’, Columbia Law Re­view, 104: 768-93. 

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Nagarajan, Vijaya and Archana Parashar. (2016) ‘Gender Equality in International Law and Constitutions: Mediating Universal Norms and Local Differences’, in: Kim Rubenstein and Katharine G. Young (eds.) The Public Law of Gender: From the Local to the Global, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 170-194.

Nagarajan, V. and Parashar, A. (2013) ‘Space and Law, Gender and Land: Using CEDAW to Regulate for Women’s Rights to Land in Vanuatu’, Law Critique, 24(1): 87-105. 

Jivan, V. and Forster, C. (2009) ‘Challenging Conventions: In Pursuit of greater legislative compliance with CEDAW in the Pacific’, Melbourne Journal of International Law, 10:655-690.

Vietnam

Nguyen, Huong. (2016) ‘Equality Without Freedoms? Political Representation and Participation of Women in Vietnam’, in: Kim Rubenstein and Katharine G. Young (eds.) The Public Law of Gender: From the Local to the Global, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 318-343.

Pasqual, L. (2009) Time for Action: Implementing CEDAW in Southeast Asia (Bangkok: United Nations Development Fund for Women).

Zambia

Bond, J. (2014) ‘CEDAW in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons in Implementation’, Michigan State Law Review: 241-263.

Dariam, S. (2007) ‘From Global to Local: The Involvement of NGOs’ in H.-B. Schoepp-Schilling and C. Flinterman (eds.), The Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-Five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (New York: The Feminist Press), 313-325.

Heyns, C. and Viljoen, F. (2001) ‘The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Trea­ties on the Domestic Level’, Human Rights Quarterly, 23(4): 483-535.

Zimbabwe

Bond, J. (2014) ‘CEDAW in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons in Implementation’, Michigan State Law Review: 241-263.

Runhare, T. et al (2014) ‘Democratisation of Formal Schooling for Pregnant Teenagers in South Africa and Zimbabwe: Smoke and Mirrors in Policy’, Gender & Behaviour 12(2): 6382-6395.

Damiso, C. and Stewart, J. (2013) ‘Zimbabwe and CEDAW compliance: pursuing women’s equality in fits and starts’, in Hellum, A. and Aasen, H.S. (eds.), Women’s Human Rights: CEDAW in International, Regional, and National Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 454-481.

Dariam, S. (2007) ‘From Global to Local: The Involvement of NGOs’ in H.-B. Schoepp-Schilling and C. Flinterman (eds.), The Circle of Empowerment. Twenty-Five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (New York: The Feminist Press), 313-325.