WHAT THIS REPORT ADDS

from Redressing the Balance: Using Human Rights Law to Improve Health For Women Everywhere

ANNEX 1

Using data from the CEDAW Implementation Map on Women’s Health regarding the four situations of women’s vulnerability, this report identifies and analyses:

Strategies the CEDAW Committee uses to prompt governments to review, implement and evaluate health-promoting laws

Legal models implemented by governments in response to CEDAW recommendations between 1997 and 2020

The extent of implementation and nonimplementation of legal models by country, region, category of law, income group and humanitarian crisis status

Concerns raised by CSOs regarding the reforms introduced by governments between 1997 and 2020

Key issues facing women in vulnerable situations, which are explored in expert commentaries by international women’s rights experts and CSOs

The four situations of vulnerability this report focuses on are:

Women experiencing or at risk of gender-based violence (GBV)

Women experiencing gender-based poverty

Women with a refugee or asylum-seeker status and those that have migrated

Women identifying as LGBTQIA+

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METHODS

LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER WOMEN LIVING IN ‘WEIRD LEGAL FRAMEWORK’ IN SINGAPORE

ASYLUM-SEEKING SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE DENIED ACCESS TO SERVICES ON THE GROUNDS OF VISA STATUS

THE CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE: HOW ARE WOMEN EXPERIENCING THESE LEGAL INTERVENTIONS?

LAW-RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WERE UNACKNOWLEDGED

A SNAPSHOT OF GBV LAWS THAT WERE UNACKNOWLEDGED

WHAT TYPES OF LEGAL INTERVENTIONS HAVE RESULTED FROM THE CEDAW REVIEW PROCESS?

GLOBAL PICTURE

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