March 9, 2009: "Celebrating 30 Years of CEDAW: Towards the Realisation of Women's Human Rights"

IWRAW-Asia Pacific and the Center for Women's Global Leadership are organizing a side event to the 2009 Commission on the Status of Women meeting in New York, on Monday, March 9th at 12pm on the 2nd level of the Church Center building.  Topics include: Highlighting the achievements and significance of CEDAW; its relevance to national and regional movements; as well as continuing challenges to its relealisation inlcuding violence against women, inclusion of economic, social and cltural rights as well as sexuality rights.