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Lynne Walsh talks to VIVIENNE HAYES of renowned charity the Women’s Resource Centre about the UN convention known as Cedaw – and why it deserves a higher profile
Vivienne Hayes, CEO of Women’s Resource Centre
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DEFENDERS for women’s rights have given us some pivotal moments in our history, from suffragettes to advocates for equal pay, to proponents of a woman’s right to choose.
And now we have Cedaw, the acronym which may be a maze of useless red tape, or a vital fulcrum in battling women’s continued oppression.
Cedaw, the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women, had its beginnings in the heady post-WWII years with the newly acquired notion that men and women might have equal rights.
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