• Women's Human Rights - General
• Women's Rights in Africa
• United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• Universal Declaration on Human Rights
• United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women - Beijing

Women's Human Rights - General

South Africa's Bill of Rights
South Africa's Bill of Rights enshrines fundamental rights which commits government to non-sexist, non-racist policy and laws and provides for the equality for all women.

Challenging the Oppression of Women
Speech by Joyce Seroke, Commission on Gender Equality Chairperson, at Closing Ceremony of Umtapo Centre Gender and Development Course, Johannesburg, 25 June 1999

Long Way to Gender Equality
Zarina Maharaj looks at the significance of the new South Africa's constitutional commitment to eliminating racial and gender discrimination which lie at the heart of underdevelopment, poverty and inequality.
(Sowetan 7/9/98)

Women and the Jobs Summit
Cosatu's Notes for a Labour Presentation to the Joint Committee on the Improvement of the Quality of Life and Status of Women, 21 September 1998

Judgment on Bid to Declare the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act Unconstitutional, 10/7/98

Submission on the Employment Equity Bill to the Portfolio Committee on Labour by Women and Human Rights Project, 20/7/98

National Poverty Commitment
Speak Out on Poverty Hearings Call to Action, Human Rights Commission, Commission on Gender Equality, SA NGO Coalition, July 1998

Submission by the Commission on Gender Equality on Customary Marriages to the South African Law Commission

A Submission To The Truth And Reconciliation Commission
Prepared By Beth Goldblatt And Sheila Meintjes, May 1996

Conference on Transformation for Gender Justice and Organisational Change/Institutional Transformation
Organised by Association for Women in Development, African Gender Institute, Gender Education and Training Network, the School for Public Administration and Management at Wits University and MBM Change Agents, Cape Town, June 1998

Address to Delegates to the Conference on Transformation for Gender Justice and Organisational Change
Speech by Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (ANC) MP, Chairperson of the ANC Parliamentary Caucus and the Parliamentary Women's Group, 4 June 1998

Gender Advocacy Programme Submission To The Department Of Justice On The Gender Policy Considerations Draft Discussion Document

Recognise Our Relationships/Equal Right to Marry Campaign Workshop Report
National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality, Recognise Our Relationships/Equal Right to Marry Campaign, Gauteng Public Workshop, 30 May 1998

Women's Rights in Africa

NGO Proposed Amendments to the African Platform for Action, Dakar, November 1994
(NGO Committee of 36, 14-15/11/94)

Code on HIV/AIDS and Employment in SADC
Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) infection and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (and globally) is a major health problem with employment, economic and human rights implications. As one response to this problem the SADC Employment and Labour Sector has established this code on the industrial relations standards on HIV/AIDS, the "Code on AIDS and Employment".

Into the future: gender and SADC
Submission to the Economic Commission for Africa compendium of best practices: a case study of integrating gender into a sub-regional organisation by Valencia Mogegeh; Athaliah Molokomme and Colleen Lowe Morna for the SADC Gender Advisory Committee.

Kenya: Women in Kenya Repression and Resistance
A country report to Amnesty International from Kenyan women's activists.

United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

CEDAW - Videos & Training Materials
(People's Decade Of Human Rights Education, PDHRE, 7/5/99)

New Learning Tool on CEDAW
(Center for Women's Global Leadership and UNIFEM, 3/6/99)

CEDAW at work: 19th Session (22 June-10 July 1998)

Republic of South Africa 1st Report to CEDAW Nineteenth Session 22 June - 10 July 1998

Republic of South Africa 2nd Report to CEDAW Nineteenth Session 22 June - 10 July 1998

See also documents on NGO Work on CEDAW

Universal Declaration on Human Rights

Declaration of Human Rights from a Gender Perspective
Contributions to the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights submitted by the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights (CLADEM), a gathering of persons and institutions that work for the promotion and defense of women's rights in 17 countries of the region.

United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women - Beijing

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
These are the official documents that emerged from the Beijing conference.
"In Beijing we will determine what can be done to eliminate gender discrimination and promote new partnerships between women and men into the 21^st century...The coming generation will be entrusted with advancing the achievements of the past two decades. The pursuit of gender equity is crucial, if the quality of life is to be truly enhanced." Gertrude Mongella, Secretary-General of the Conference."