Title: Equity or equality for women? : understanding CEDAW's equality principles

Authors: Facio, Alda and Morgan, Martha I.

Place: Kuala Lumpur

Publisher: International women's rights action watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)

Year: cop. 2009

Journal: IWRAW Asia Pacific occasional paper series

Volume: no. 14

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Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: women's rights, treaties, gender equality

Abstract: This essay traces the background of the controversy over the terms equity and equality in international human rights law and it describes CEDAW’s attempts to emphasize the distinction between ‘equality’ and ‘equity’ and its efforts to clarify the meaning of CEDAW’s gender equality concept.

URL: http://www.iwraw-ap.org/publications/doc/OPS14_Web.pdf

Document type: Portal