27-28 October: Consultation with UN Experts on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Women and ESCR Working Group of ESCR-Net served as the primary facilitators and experts at the Expert Consultation on Women's ESCR hosted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on 27-28 October, 2011 in Geneva. This meeting was organized to bring together key actors working on women's ESCR from (i) the UN treaty bodies and (ii) the UN special procedures, (iii) civil society, (iv) UN agencies, and (v) from within OHCHR.
The aim of the consultation was to (1) identify the key economic and social challenges facing women today and (2) map the substantive issues where there is a need for conceptual clarity, better coherence between international bodies and (3) provide practical guidance and develop a strategy to advance such issues at the international level and identify opportunities for collaboration.
ESCR-Net's Women and ESCR working group and other members of the Network attended and contributed to the discussion including FIDA Kenya; Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights; Center for Reproductive Rights; Amnesty International; Center for Equality Rights in Accommodation; Equis: Justicia para Mujeres; Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation; Women's Legal Centre of South Africa; FIAN International; Global Initiative for ESCR; ; International Women's Rights Action Watch -Asia Pacific; International Commission of Jurists; Graciela Dede Delfino and Maria Virginia Bras Gomes.
In addition, experts from the newly appointed Human Rights Council Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law and Practice, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Human Rights Committee and Virginia Dandan, newly appointed Special Rapporteur on International Solidarity, participated in the event.
Please see below for the agenda and presentations made by members of the Women and ESCR working group.
Contact Rebecca Brown (rbrown@escr-net.org) for more information.
The Women and ESCR Working Group of ESCR-Net served as the primary facilitators and experts at the Expert Consultation on Women's ESCR hosted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on 27-28 October, 2011 in Geneva. This meeting was organized to bring together key actors working on women's ESCR from (i) the UN treaty bodies and (ii) the UN special procedures, (iii) civil society, (iv) UN agencies, and (v) from within OHCHR.