EDVAW Platform

Cooperation among global and regional women’s rights mechanisms

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Purpose of the EDVAW Platform

The Platform of Independent Expert Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence against Women (EDVAW Platform) gathers seven United Nations and regional independent expert mechanisms dedicated to addressing discrimination and violence against women and girls, promoting accountability, and advancing women’s and girls’ rights at the international and regional levels.

The Platform aims to strengthen institutional links and thematic co-operation between the mechanisms with a view to developing harmonised strategies and undertaking joint action. By enhancing collaboration, its goal is to improve the implementation of the existing international and regional legal and policy frameworks developed to end discrimination and violence against women and to make these mechanisms more visible and accessible to all.

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Flyer: About the EDVAW Platform

Background

In her 2004 report to the Human Rights Commission (E/CN.4/2004/66), which preceded the Human Rights Council, the former Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Yakin Ertürk, acknowledged that “numerous international and regional mechanisms are in place to guide efforts to eliminate violence against women”. She also added that “she intends to continue and develop the collaboration with intergovernmental bodies” including regional intergovernmental organizations and their mechanisms engaged in the promotion of human rights of women.

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Activities

18 JANUARY 2024

Online meeting of the Platform of Independent Expert Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence against Women
 

11 OCTOBER 2023

Online meeting of the Platform of Independent Expert Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence against Women

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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

EXTERNAL LINKS

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (A SRWHR) Committee of Experts of the Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI) Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Rapporteur on the Rights of Women (IA RWHR)

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