ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to The George Institute for Global Health and Australian Human Rights Institute for their funding and support since the project’s conception, and in particular the project operations team: Emma Feeny, Dr Anna Palagyi, Maina Sharma, Prof Justine Nolan, Maarinke van der Meulen, Matthew Cross, Drew Sheldrick, and Helen Monaghan. Huge thanks go to Ashurst International (UK Office) for their generous pro-bono data collection over a two year period.

We thank the Advisory Group (listed on page 4) for generously giving their time over the last two years. Thanks to Dr Anna Palagyi, Dr Keerthi Muvva, A/Prof Ramona Vijeyarasa and Prof Mark Woodward for their assistance throughout 2019 in conceptualising the Asia Pacific region pilot study which laid the foundation of the global CEDAW Implementation Map.

Thanks also to Prof Anushka Patel, Prof Robyn Norton and Prof Kent Buse for their expert reviews of the report and in particular, guidance on the recommendations. Thank you to the civil society organisations and UN CEDAW Committee Members Natasha Stott Despoja and Corinne Dettmeijer who provided early feedback on the interpretation of the results contained in this report at a Geneva briefing held to coincide with the October 2022 CEDAW reviews. Thank you to Mónica Arango Olaya, Natasha Holcroft-Emmess and Prof Sandy Fredman at the Oxford University Law Faculty and Human Rights Hub for hosting a keynote speaker event featuring this report which allowed us to gain valuable feedback on the results prior to publication.

Thanks to the expert commentators featured in this report: Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa, Dr Meghan Campbell, Dr Nadia Mohd Rasidi and Audrey Lee, Viji Dhayanathan, Kanchana Krishna from the Tamil Women’s Development Group and Dr Camilla Gianella Malca. Many thanks to Maina Sharma and Emma Feeny for their research, interviews and write up of the impact stories contained in this report. Thank you to Imogen D’Souza for her assistance with dataset management, Sherine Al Shallah for her work on Annex 1, and Misimi Kakoti for her referencing work.

Special thanks to UN CEDAW Committee Member Natasha Stott Despoja for her guidance and support over the last two years.

Report design: Jason Dass, Alex Baldock, Designers, The George Institute for Global Health

Data visualisations: Deborah Bordeos, Creative Designer, UNSW Creative Services

Cover art and illustrations: Vanessa Lovegrove

Citation: Citation: J Shanthosh. 2023. Redressing the balance: Using human rights law to improve health for women everywhere. The George Institute for Global Health and the Australian Human Rights Institute University of New South Wales.

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