CEDAW: The Challenges of Enshrining Women's Equality in International Law. (4th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mullins, Lauren Bock
• Is Part Of: Public integrity. Volume 20:Number 3(2018)
• Page Start: 257
• Page End: 272
• Publication Date: 2018-05-04
• Subjects: CEDAW -- equality -- human rights -- international law -- women; Civil service ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics; Political ethics; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; CIVIL SERVICE; MORAL ASPECTS; POLITICAL ETHICS; Periodicals; 172
• DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2017.1381542
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1099-9922

Abstract

Abstract : While women's rights are more of a recent development in international human rights law, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was the first international agreement to declare women's rights as human rights. This article is both a description and an analysis of the Convention and the Optional Protocol, the reservations, general problems, and the issue of cultural relativism. An analysis of the United States in relation to CEDAW in terms of particular state issues of enforcement, ratification, and reservations brings to light possible solutions for further establishment of rights through CEDAW, including the organization of an interstate forum.