CEDAW--Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Convention text
Optional Protocol
State party reports
Concluding Observations
Shadow Reporting
Assessing the Status of Women: a Guide to Reporting under the CEDAW Convention. 2000.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Forthcoming 2009: Assessing the Status of Women in the 21st Century.
Producing NGO Shadow Reports to the CEDAW Committee. 2008.
Sample shadow reports:
IWRAW
IWRAW-AP
CESCR-- Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Convention text
State party reports
Concluding Observations
OHCHR CESCR website
Shadow Reporting
Equality and Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Common Core Documents (CCDs)/ New Guidelines
State party common core documents (CCDs) - Search by country
New Guidelines for Human Rights Treaty Reporting: Opportunities for Women's Human Rights NGOs
IWRAW archived publications
Shadow/Country Reports- Shadow (Country) reports published by IWRAW
Women’s Watch – Newsletter published from 1995-2000
IWRAW Consultation Reports
Beijing+5 and Women's Human Rights
United Nations Links
Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body Database
*for State party reports, Concluding Observations, and other treaty body documents
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Home Page
Human Rights Organizations
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Center for Reproductive Rights
Human Rights Watch
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP)
Karat Coalition (Poland)
Network of East-West Women
Stop Violence Against Women
Resources
University of MN Human Rights Library
Women's Human Rights Resources, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto