CEDAW Thematic Shadow Report 2003
As various UN documents and policies have made clear, violence against women is an issue of gender discrimination, representing a barrier to the achievement of gender equality. It has also been placed squarely within the international Human Rights agenda since the Vienna conference in 1993. The CEDAW Committee has also made clear that they expect governments to report on this issue, although the mechanism for doing so is somewhat fragmented given that a discrete section on violence does not appear within the Convention Articles and several General Recommendations are relevant. We have undertaken the task of producing this report to assist the committee in foregrounding the issue of violence with the UK government. We have fed into the WNC process for the official shadow report and chosen to provide the Committee with more detailed material in support of this.
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