ဖော်ပြချက်/အကြောင်းအရာ:
Submitted to the Pre-sessional Working Group of CEDAW.....
Introduction:
"1.
With this submission,
the
Global Justice Center (GJC)
aims
to
provide guidance to the
pre-session Working Group
in its preparation of the
list of issues
to be examined during
the
Committee to Eliminate Discrimination against Women?s
(?Committee”)
review of
Myanmar?s combined
fourth and fifth
periodic reports. It
highlights
several
violations of
the
Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW)
by
Myanmar and is based on
a
report by GJC and the Leitner Center
for
International Law and Justice (Fordham School of Law)
comparing Myanmar?s national
plan for the advancement of women against its CEDAW obligations
(?Promises Not
Progress: Burma?s National Plan for Women Falls Short of Gender Equality and CEDAW
(attached hereto).
II.
Analytic Framework:
2.
Since 2011, limited democratic reforms in Myanmar have not improved women?s rights
or made any strides towards ensuring gender equality in general.
This can be attributed, at
least in part, to the fact that the focus of the reforms has been on readying Myanmar?s
economy for an influx of capital and encouraging foreign investment, rather than on
ensuring human rights. Additionally, the way
the Government characterizes reforms
needs to be carefully considered. For example, in its
2015 periodic report to the CEDAW
Committee (?Periodic Report”), the Government asserts that eight
laws related to
women?s rights have been amended or enacted.
However, consideration of these laws
reveals that they are laws which provide labor and economic protections generally, not
laws seeking to ameliorate the situation of women in Myanmar. In fact, only one of the
laws discussed, the Social Security Law, includes specific provisions related to women
(maternity leave).
3.
Threats to women?s equality
in Myanmar
exist against an unchanged landscape shaped by
a deep history of patriarchy and decades of oppressive military dictatorship. Today, these
legacies remain very much alive in the form of fundamental defects that impede genuine
legal
reform, including legal structures guaranteeing gender equality.
4.
In particular, three underlying themes are critical to understanding the complexity of
injustice against women in Myanmar and the need for structural reforms in order to effect
genuine positive change: (1) ongoing supremacy of military power; (2) entrenchment of
military power and gender inequality in
the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar (?2008 Constitution”); and (3) lack of an independent judiciary.
5.
In this submission, the GJC
presents
a condensed summary of the facts relating to the
violations of the following
articles
of CEDAW: Articles 1 & 2 (definition and prohibition
of
discrimination, access to justice, violence against women);
Article 3 (guarantee of basic
human rights and fundamental freedoms); Article 7 (political participation); Article 10
(education); Article 11 (employment); Article 12 (health); Article 14 (rural women); Article
18 (precise and disaggregated data); General Recommendations 28 and 30 (conflict, post-conflict and conflict prevention).
6.
At the end of each section, we suggest a list of issues, questions and clarifications for the
Working Group?s consideration..."
ရင်းမြစ်:
Global Justice Center
Date of Publication:
2015-10-00
Date of entry:
2016-07-19
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