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Mechanisms for advancing women's human rights:

Last updated
22 August, 2011

Aiming to assist women who have experienced human rights violations, and been failed by processes in Australia, this guide can be used to seek redress from international complaint mechanisms.

Subtitle: A guide to using the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other international complaint mechanisms.

This is a practical guide for lawyers, advocates and women experiencing violations of their rights on how to use international complaint mechanisms to seek redress for alleged violations of women’s human rights.  

 

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