Article 30 of the CEDAW
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/08/09
Article 30
The present Convention, the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, duly authorized, have signed the present Convention.
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979)
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women or the Convention gives one of the firm international foundations for nations around the globe to partake of the endeavour in the Sustainable Development Goals and others for the greater equality of the sexes, of men and women, of gender; in this work towards the greater equality of the genders in the past and seeing the effects now, in particular the educational world and women’s ability to feel freer to speak out against abuses, those momentous documents and historical work act as auguries for the future of the world, of the set of possible futures – as hinted at by Atwood, recently – worth pursuing for the equality and human rights-minded people.
Throughout this extensive article series on the Convention or the CEDAW, we can see the development of a series of rights stipulations with rules of procedure, membership, and accession for the updates to the stipulations and then implementation and reportage on said implementation of human rights.
The human rights sub-set here comes in the form of women’s rights. The rights of women in work, in the home, in the educational centers, in political life, in civic and public arenas, and in reproductive health, and others.
The Convention comes with an associated Committee to further state the rights to equality of all women with the men in the world. The right to simply be a human being equal to others, not necessarily in various domains or capacities per individual but in the principle, the ethical precept, found in the Golden Rule in religious traditions or in the highest ethics of Millian Utilitarianism (by John Stuart Mill’s own assessment, by the way).
Our manner of being, of living, in the world, comes from a general acceptance of some ground rules. The human rights provide one level. The set of women’s rights give another level in the distinction based on sex and gender. The biological birth and attributes that attach to it, innately. Then the socio-cultural influence on attitudes and behaviors with gender.
The Conventions gives a glimpse into a world that could exist and which, by implication, does not yet live before our eyes. It could; it might. These become human decisions. Same with human decisions to destroy the world in which we live.
Article 30 speaks to the need for each and every current incarnation of the Convention, which becomes the present Convention in light of the updates via correspondence with the realities of the new scientific and technological landscapes of the day, should be stated in some of the most common languages spoken in the world.
Those will be then given to what is called the depositary or a role given to the current Secretary-General of the United Nations – its highest official. Then it simply closes with a due authorization of the present Convention – the current instantiation – for the nations to begin implementing in their respective country.
–One can find similar statements in other documents, conventions, declarations and so on, with the subsequent statements of equality or women’s rights:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Preamble, Article 16, and Article 25(2).
- Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960) in Article 1.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 3 and Article 13.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).
- The Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1993).
- Beijing Declaration(1995).
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000).
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000).
- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the “Maputo Protocol” (2003).
- Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence or the Istanbul Convention (2011) Article 38 and Article 39.
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