Effectiveness of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in Eliminating Violence against Women: a Critical Examination

Abstract

Violence against women is seen as one of the most widespread human rights violations and a major barrier to women's personal growth. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Second Wave feminist movement introduced the issue to the public, offered a theoretical framework for analyzing it, and launched a full-scale campaign to address it. One of the most common violations of human rights worldwide is violence against women; never sand the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) makes no explicit reference to this issue. This paper starts by further analyzing the CEDAW's evolution. analyzes CEDAW's Article 2 against violence against women critically, looking at its implementation procedures and alternatives Optional protocols, the State parties' Concept of Reservation, the 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the hesitant actions of state parties to the general proposals are also covered. The fact that, despite CEDAW's existence since 1979, the word "violence" is never specifically mentioned, makes this fact all the more startling. It has, however, construed in its rules in a way that implicitly incorporates them, although this hasn't been very helpful. It also sheds some light on India's position with CEDAW.