Deadline- 06 January 2013
Applicants are requested to submit proposals for training workshop for secretariat of ASEAN InterGovernmental Commission on Human Rights and ASEAN Secretariat on gender equality and women’s human rights in Jakarta, Indonesia.
UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific is implementing a project “Regional Mechanisms to Protect the Human Rights of Women and Girls in Southeast Asia” with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency. It aims to ensure that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) uphold the commitments that ASEAN countries have made to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and facilitate the realization of gender equality and human rights of women and girls in the region.
Specific objectives aim that at the end of training participants will be able to-
- Recognize women’s situations and contexts from human rights linked with gender, intersectional, feminist and related concepts and perspectives.
- Summarize from a multi-level and interlinked system (a) sources and general concepts and principles of human rights law; and (b) the institutions, mechanisms, and processes involved in making and interpreting, implementing, and enforcing human rights law
- Explain the CEDAW framework and standards and identify other core international human rights treaties and international documents relevant to the rights especially of more disadvantaged groups
- Test application in specific women’s situations of a multi-treaty approach; and assess potential value- add and challenges in adopting this approach especially in contexts relevant to participants’ work
- Recognize dilemmas and challenges to WHR related to cultural and religious factors, economic globalization, heteronormativity, collective and individual rights, competing interests, and institutional factors, and; discuss how AICHR and other ASEAN bodies can address those challenges; Prepare a checklist of questions and other considerations for application of WHR knowledge and skills
- Practise application of WHR knowledge and skills in specific aspects of participants’ work
- Identify different ways that participants can apply WHR knowledge and perspectives on WHR in their professional and personal lives.
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