Our
Government must be held accountable: WRC speaking to UN CEDAW Committee about
women’s rights in the UK
Charlotte, Policy Officer
for Women’s Resource Centre, will today join a small group of women from the UK in Geneva to address the United Nations (UN) Committee of the
Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). These women
are addressing the problems impacted on women’s equality in the UK, detailed what our government must be held
accountable for by the UN. Women from the UK will get the rare opportunity to share with the UN
the key issues they face, drawing attention to the UK government and their progress on women’s rights.
On behalf of the CEDAW
Working Group, Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) will deliver a presentation
highlighting how women’s rights in the UK have come to a standstill and in some cases,
positive policy changes are being reversed and women’s rights reduced.
The UK record on women’s rights will continue to be the
focus internationally as the UK government must report to CEDAW on their progress
since they were last examined by the UN Committee in 2008; this will take place
in July 2013. How will the government explain the reversal of women’s right in
the UK? These inequalities exist when the UK is suppose to set an example for other countries
through their international work.
“The Government must face up to their
international obligations under CEDAW to protect and advance the rights of
women in the UK. It is unacceptable for the UK to be reversing women’s rights and
austerity cannot be an excuse - the legacy of these changes will be felt for
generations so we must ensure that the UN holds them to account and they do not
continue to roll back women’s rights in the UK,” says Vivienne Hayes, Chief
Executive of the Women’s Resource Centre.
WRC will also be present at
the UK Feminista lobby of Parliament on 24th October.
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