Legal Tools & Conventions
Legal Tools & Conventions
A starting point of advocacy is to understand what has already been agreed upon between states and what governments have publicly committed to do. The relevant legal tools that concern the advancement of education and human rights for women in the international arena are listed below.
Civil society can have influence by monitoring whether governments have met their legal obligations in their own countries, reporting what abuses there are, pressuring their politicians for more action and urging governments to be accountable.
The Beijing Platform for Action
Education for All
Vienna+20
CEDAW
UPR
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Acronyms
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