{"id":1645,"date":"2015-09-14T14:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2015-09-15T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:43:46","slug":"claudias-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/claudias-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Article 8 of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women: A Stepping Stone in Ensuring Gender Parity in International Organs and Tribunals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">Article 8 of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women: A Stepping Stone in Ensuring Gender Parity in International Organs and Tribunals<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Claudia Martin, Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law and member of the GQUAL Team, explains what are State\u00b4s obligations from a human rights perspective to promote and guarantee that women are equally represented in international tribunals and monitoring bodies.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>[quote align=&#8221;center&#8221; color=&#8221;#COLOR_CODE&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"781.6948333333335\">When Article 8 speaks of \u201cinternational organizations,\u201d it is understood that that notion encompasses<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"782.4849999999999\">not only international bodies such as the United Nations, but also regional organizations, including<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"771.3016666666668\">the Organization of American States, the Council of Europe, and the African Union to mention a few.<\/div>\n<div>3<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"784.4796666666666\">Moreover, all organs within those organizations are covered by this obligation, including \u201ccourts,<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"655.699\">subsidiary bodies, funds and programmes, specialized agencies, and treaty bodies.<\/div>\n<p>[\/quote]<\/p>\n<p>[quote align=&#8221;center&#8221; color=&#8221;#COLOR_CODE&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"781.636166666667\">Article 8 of the Convention clearly provides for a state duty to ensure women de facto<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"783.6344999999999\">equality to access positions at international tribunals and other organs in charge of applying and<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"781.7883333333335\">implementing international law.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"781.7883333333335\">[\/quote]<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Read and download the paper <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Advocacy-Piece-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 8 of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women: A Stepping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[147],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}