New resources on women and ESCR in the context of Post-2015 discussions
During the 58th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, APWLD, AWID, CRR, CWGL, CLADEM, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, LRC, and other Members disseminated factsheets and papers addressing realization of women’s ESC rights and substantive equality in the Post-2015 context.
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
For 25 years APWLD has been conducting key research and publishing books and other learning materials that aim to advance women’s human rights. Resources are available at: http://apwld.org/resources/
Documents on development justice and free trade agreements available at:
Trans-Pacific Women vs. Trans-Pacific Partnership
Five foundational shifts for Development Justice
What is Sustainable Development Financing?
Association For Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
CSW58 special focus page. AWID launched its Special Focus Section on the 58th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) to follow the proceedings and keep up to date on official and CSO statements, events, news, analysis and resources in preparation for, and coming out of the two-week meeting that took place in New York from 10 to 21st March 2014. (English, Spanish and French).
Post-2015 and women's rights special focus page. AWID set up this special focus page in three languages to shed light on the process underway to shape a new development agenda to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015. The page provides critical feminist analysis and access to key resources including latest news, publications, statements, campaigns and events. (English, Spanish and French):
New women’s rights and gender equality hub on The Guardian. AWID and Mama Cash are excited to be partnering with theguardian.com to create a new women’s rights and gender equality in-focus section of their global development website. (English).
Our right to safety: Women Human Rights Defenders' holistic approach to protection. AWID, in collaboration with the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition, has developed this publication in an effort to assess the various mechanisms that have been developed to provide protection to Women Human Rights Defenders at risk, including initiatives developed by national governments, and regional and international human rights bodies. (English).
Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)
The CRR’s site contains every Publication and Video the Center has produced since 1997, including a Legal Glossary of reproductive rights law. Other useful resources are available at: http://reproductiverights.org/en/resources.
The latest publication “Substantive Equality and Reproductive Rights: A Briefing Paper on Aligning Development Goals with Human Rights Obligations” provides concrete recommendations to states about how they can integrate international human rights norms surrounding reproductive rights and gender equality specifically into the development framework that comes out of the Post-2015 Agenda.
Centre for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)
The CWGL develops and shares knowledge about the linkages between macroeconomic policies, and economic and social rights to better influence global and national policies, and strengthen capacities for women’s global leadership and gender equality. A list of useful CWGL publications on ESR is available here.
CLADEM (Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer)
Cladem counts on a series of national and regional documents in Latin America on different aspects of women’s rights. Resources are available here.
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Harvard University
The Health Rights of Women and Children Program of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights has co-produced a paper series covering a range of issues from lessons learned from the MDGs, including a discussion of key sexual and reproductive human rights and gender equality issues not addressed under the MDGs, intended and unintended consequences of how the MDG agenda was set, shifts in global development priorities and changes to global and national funding structures; to considerations from a human rights perspective for criteria for the selection of targets and indicators in the post-2015 agenda. The documents available are:
Yamin, AE and Boulanger, VM. Embedding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in a Transformational Development Framework: Lessons Learned from the MDG Targets and Indicators. Reproductive Health Matters. 2013; 21(42):1-13. Forthcoming December 2013 online at: www.rhm-elsevier.com
Yamin AE and Falb KL. Counting What We Know: Knowing what to Count: Sexual and reproductive rights, maternal health, and the Millennium Development Goals.
Yamin, AE and Boulanger, VM. From Transforming Power to Counting Numbers: The evolution of sexual and reproductive health and rights in development; and where we want to go from here. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Working Paper, May 2013.
Fukuda-Parr, S, Yamin, AE, Greenstein, J. Synthesis Paper – The Power of Numbers: A Critical Review of MDG Targets for Human Development and Human Rights. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Working Paper, May 2013.
Sen, G and Mukherjee, A. No Empowerment without Rights, No Rights without Politics: Gender-Equality, MDGs and the post 2015 Development Agenda. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Working Paper, May 2013.
South Africa Legal Resource Centre (LRC)
The LRC Working Paper Series, established in 2012, aims to encourage the publication of academic writings on topics concerning the public interest at a national, regional and international level. This publication and other resources are available here.