The Agreed Conclusion of CSW57 – Reaffirmation of the Universality of Women’s Human Rights
Last month we ran a special themed post series on the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57). We are delighted to conclude this series with...
So Near and Yet So Far: The International Arms Trade Treaty and Human Rights
By Dr Gilles Giacca – The renewed United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty opened on 18 March 2013 for a total of nine days. Optimism is running high...
Contesting Refugee Status Cessation: The Rwandan Case
By Kelly O’Connor – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recommends that the refugee status of all Rwandans who fled the country between 1959 and 1998 should cease...
CSW57: Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls
Today we continue our special themed post series focusing on CSW57. Claire Overman reflects on one of the discussions at CSW57 last week concerning the specific challenges surrounding violence against...
Reversing Roles: Bringing men into the frame
On Tuesday 12 March, the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) turns its attention to the ‘equal sharing of responsibilities between men and women’. In...
The Challenge of Human Security
By John Bond OAM In September 2012 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Human Security, which it describes as ‘an approach to assist Member States in addressing widespread...
Fight hunger and discrimination by empowering women – Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
In rural areas around the world it is often men who migrate first to cities in search of waged labour. When they do so, it falls to women to sustain...
CSW57, MGDs and Gendered Poverty
One of the themes the delegates at CSW57 will be confronting over the next two weeks are the challenge of de facto achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for...
Development and Conflict
One does not need to look for long for examples of conflict impacting on development. Take the case of Mali: a year ago, conflict in the north of the country...
57th Session of Commission on the Status of Women begins today: OxHRH CSW57 presents a special themed post series
The 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) begins today. As delegates from around the world convene at the United Nations Headquarters between 4 to 15...
Protecting the Labour Rights and Human Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers – A Labour Regulation Approach
By Professor Judy Fudge – Women who cross national borders in order to work in the households of other peoples’ families are very vulnerable to exploitation.Their precarious work situation is...
The ‘War Against Terrorism’ and the Decade of Exceptionalism
Ben Emmerson QC, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, spoke at the Wadham Human Rights Forum on Thursday February 7th 2013. One question lay at the heart of...
