The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is a powerful legal instrument for articulating, advocating, and monitoring women's human rights.  Until the mid-nineties, the UN was not open to the voices of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).  Now, however, NGOs play a vital role in making the Convention an instrument of women's empowerment, through advo

Tactic Information

Intervention type: 

Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Collaboration

Intervention type: 

Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity

Objective: 

Supporting non-governmental organizations in their use of international mechanisms to press government for change

Sector initiating tactic: 

Civil society

Sector initiating tactic: 

Intergovernmental organization

Sector intended to affect: 

Civil society