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Women’s NGOs Coalition on CEDAW & Women’s Access to Justice 2010-2012

The Project aims at increasing the capacity of women’s NGOs in partner countries in Central Asia (Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan) to use CEDAW mechanisms to counteract discrimination against women and advance women’s rights as well as improving women’s access to justice at national and international level. The current Project builds on the 2008-2009 activities of KARAT in CEE and Central Asia linked to the promotion of Optional Protocol to CEDAW. During the realization of the previous project KARAT learnt that barriers limiting women’s access to justice at national level prevent women from using OP CEDAW, exhaustion of national remedies being one of the admissibility criteria of the communication submitted under this mechanism. Thus the current Project aims, among others, at enhancing women’s access to justice for the advancement of CEDAW implementation at national level.

The Project’s strategy aims at:
  • Keeping the States accountable for implementing Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW);
  • Improving the knowledge on women’s access to justice as a barrier to use the OP CEDAW communication procedure
  • Contributing to women’s NGOs debate at international level in the context of CEDAW, Beijing +15 and UN human rights documents


Project activities include:

  • Development of strategy and cooperation building between Project Partners
  • Advocacy & lobbying for CEDAW and Concluding Observations at national and regional level
  • Improving access to OP CEDAW procedures:
    • campaigns for ratification of Optional Protocol
    • building acapacity to use OP CEDAW
    • supporting individual/group complaints
    • assesing/evaluating access to justice at national and regional level in the context of fulfilling the admissibility criteria
    • advocating for enhanced women’s access to justice in the region
  • Dissemination of information & experience sharing
  • Participation in events at regional & international level


The implementation of the project is possible thanks to the financial support of OXFAM Novib.

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