Women’s and child's human rights & Importance of CEDAW

[jayanta karmaker]

    From beginning of the creation, the family and state have be developed by joint collaboration between the men and women. In the primitive society the women only do household works and rearing and bearing the children. Gradually everything is changing; with the increase of the necessity, today’s women are working both in private and public field. But still they do not achieve the same status in the public and private field. UN charter and later on in 1948, 10 December in the Universal Declaration has been known as human rights bill. Its objective was two---1) To flourish the basic rights and possible talents 2) and to implement it through international process.

In 1979, 18 December the general assembly of UN has declared this convention or bill considering the issue of discrimination against women. Let’s now we look into the matter, why CEDAW is so important? Before this there were many convention but those did not get priority because those were not based on human rights.
The Importance Of CEDAW:
   
     CEDAW is the only bill or contract which speaks about women issue
     By equality in CEDAW means equality of law and practical equality
     It determines the international standard regarding women rights.
     CEDAW gives the complete definition about the discrimination against women.
     It put equal importance to remove the discrimination on the private and public of women.
    The supporting countries of CEDAW are legally bound to implement the CEDAW


   Convention on the Rights of the Child,1989:

CEDAW speaks about the equality of law and practical utility , we should not exclude the child's right . In 1989 this convention has established the rights and the status of the children from international perspective. By this convention all types of basic rights of the children are reserved. According to this convention, following rights of the children are ensured:

    * Rights for name---Every child has right for their own name and the name of their nationality
    * Rights on their parents
    * To get help for the lonely and orphan child.
    * Rights for education—every child has aright for primary education. And they have also rights for secondary and vocational education.
    * Rights for healthy environment
    * Rights for food and shelter
    * Rights to get additional help for the disabled child
    * Rights for health and treatment
    * Rights for games
    * Rights to refrain from hard work
    * Rights to refrain from sex violence
    * Rights to get rid of inhumane behavior
    * Rights to remain safe from war
    * Rights to express their own opinion.

[farzanamili]

thanks for this post. Women & children are vulnerable sections of society. Often they are victimised by domestic & social violence. In every spheres of life,they face different types of problems and their human rights are often violated.CEDAW specifically deals with women rights. There is also Child Convention. There are many NGO's also in the world dealing these two sections of the society. But really the rate of successful work about human rights of child & women is not satisfactory.