CEDAW and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Workshop, Panel 4: Cross-cutting Issues and Concluding Reflections

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This final panel of the CEDAW and SOGI workshop addressed some cross-cutting issues (conflict, asylum, hate speech) and included final concluding reflections from Marion Bethel, current CEDAW Committee member.

Cross Cutting Issues

Lucia Baca (Colombia Diversa)

Niels-Erik Hansen (Immigration Lawyer)

Kseniya Kirichenko (IGLA-World (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association))

Concluding Reflections

Marion Bethel (Current Member of the CEDAW Committee)

Women’s enjoyment of the substantive rights guaranteed under CEDAW – legal equality, nationality, education, employment, health, economic and social life, rurality, family life, political participation – are inextricably informed and shaped in important ways by their sexual orientation and gender identity.

This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committee’s current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpointed areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.

The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).

The workshop was hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.