HOW CAN YOU ADVOCATE FOR CEDAW LEGISLATION IN YOUR CITY, COUNTY OR STATE?
Please refer to the resources below to help you get started in taking action for the Cities for CEDAW movement…
CITIES FOR CEDAW – RESOURCES
Background Information
- Cities for CEDAW: Status of Local Activities
- Toolkit – Cities for CEDAW: A Campaign to Make the Global Local
- Cities for CEDAW Fact Sheet
- Implementing CEDAW as a Local Ordinance
- Nuts and Bolts City Action
- Tips on Talking to an Official about Cities for CEDAW
- Making Rights Real – A Workbook on the Local Implementation of Human Rights
- CEDAW Summary: Two pager on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- Introduction to the General Recommendations issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- Book Chapter, “Cities for CEDAW: Notes on the Road to Effective Intervention” in Power and Territories (Flaminia Saccà ed.) (Forthcoming 2018)
- 2018 IAOHRA Gender Equity Toolkit for State and Local Agencies (developed by IAOHRA and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute)
Reports
- Cities for CEDAW Report (2021)
- Cities for CEDAW Report (2019)
- Denver For CEDAW, Report on the Status of the Cities for CEDAW Campaign (2018)
- Gender Analysis of Housing and Gentrification in Durham County, North Carolina
- 2017 San Francisco Department on the Status of Women Gender Analysis of Commissions & Boards: Full Report & Executive Summary
- Gender Equity Through Human Rights: Local Efforts to Advance the Status of Women and Girls in the United States (2017)
- The City of Los Angeles: The Report on the Status of Women and Girls
- The Status of Women in Miami-Dade County (2016)
- The Status of Women in Salt Lake City
- Human Rights in Action: San Francisco’s Local Implementation of the United Nations’ Women’s Treaty (CEDAW)
- Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California
- Report by the United Nations NGO Committee on the Status of Women/New York
Videos/Social Media
- Facebook Page
- Twitter Page
- Louisville, KY: How to Become a CEDAW City (video)
- Colorado for CEDAW Website
- How to Organize a City Coalition with Marilyn Fowler, WIN President and CEO
- For more videos, see Cities for CEDAW YouTube Channel.
Videos courtesy of CEDAW Histories & Futures Project
General:
- Pittsburgh PA for CEDAW and Allegheny County for CEDAW – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPkEpBpr3oo
- CEDAW youth group plan
- 50 women project – Cities for CEDAW part 1
- 50 women project – Cities for CEDAW part 2
- HRSIG and Jill Follows: CSW67 NGO Forum: THE CEDAW TRILOGY
- Democracy for Human Rights Through CEDAW
Testimonies (Mayors and city councils):
- SF Mayor Edwin Lee – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnPnc42VBc
- Mayor Garcetti, former mayor of Los Angeles – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5dig9Hmuk
- Mayor Kapzuckowizc of Toledo: – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3y91fXinJA
- Gavin Newsom former mayor of San Francisco, governor California – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzbnl5G0d4w&list=PLA_oPvKce4BR0bWU5rVNKwGy5VHd6kNl8
- Salt Lake City – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij659MWv6oE
Public Hearings and Press Conferences:
- Miami-Dade County – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDgnuvLkP_A&t=2s
- Pittsburgh PA Gender equity press conference 2018 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Q9IRGqkb8
- Pittsburgh PA Gender equity press conference 2019 – https://youtu.be/up0SPz13Va8
- Jackie Biskupski, Salt Lake City resolution – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2LVmPsBUB8
Trainings:
- Soon-Young Yoon: Sustaining Mother Earth
History and Futures Project Playlist:
- Louisville KY – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l18wXFgcPYk
- Shelley Welsch University City, Mo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohx8MXM8H1Q
- Soon-Young Yoon, UN rep for IAW talks about Cities for CEDAW
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights–a Human Right
- CEDAW History and Futures project interview with Krishanti Dhamaraj
- A CEDAW History and Futures project interview with Soon-Young Yoon
- The CEDAW History and Futures project interviews Nina Corder, founder of Women of Toledo
- Innovations for Equity
- The CEDAW History and Futures project interviews Jill Fallows, Fairfax county
- The CEDAW History and Futures project interviews Karen Mulhauser
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Nancy Kirshner Rodriguez, Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights Panel
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KRISHANTI DHARMARAJ, “Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights”
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SHELLEY WELSCH, “Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights”
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ANASTASIA POSADSKAYA,”Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights”
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Araceli Campos, Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights Panel
Sample Resolutions, Ordinances and Executive Directives
- Alameda County, California Resolution
- Appleton, Wisconsin Resolution
- Ashland, Oregon Resolution
- Austin, Texas Resolution
- City of Berkeley, California
- City of Boulder, Colorado Resolution
- County of Boulder, Colorado Resolution
- Bozeman County, Montana Resolution
- Broward County, Florida Ordinance
- California State Senate Resolution
- Charlestown County, South Carolina Resolution
- Cincinnati, Ohio Resolution
- Cincinnati, Ohio Ordinances
- Columbia, South Carolina Resolution
- Daly City, California Resolution
- Dane County, Wisconsin Resolution
- Duluth, Minnesota Resolution
- Durham County, North Carolina Resolution
- Edina, Minnesota Resolution
- Erie, Colorado Resolution
- Eugene, Oregon Resolution
- Fairfax, Virginia Resolution
- Guadalupe City, California Resolution
- Honolulu, Hawaii Ordinance
- Irvine, California Resolution
- Jamestown, Colorado Resolution
- Kansas City, Missouri Resolution
- Kansas City, Missouri Article 38
- Kauai, Hawaii Resolution
- Kentucky House Resolution
- Lafayette, Colorado Resolution
- Laguna Woods, California Agenda with Resolution
- Long Beach, California Resolution
- Los Angeles CEDAW Ordinance
- Los Angeles Mayor’s Executive Directive
- Los Angeles County Ordinance
- Louisville, Colorado Resolution
- Louisville, Kentucky Resolution
- Madison, Wisconsin Resolution
- Maui, Hawaii Resolution
- Miami Dade County, Florida Ordinance
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin Resolution
- Minneapolis, Minnesota Resolution
- Mount Vernon, New York Resolution
- New Orleans, Louisiana Resolution
- Northfield, Minnesota Resolution
- Oakland, California Resolution
- Oregon Statewide Proclamation
- Palo Alto, California Resolution
- Pasadena, California Resolution
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ordinance
- Rapid City, South Dakota Resolution
- Red Wing, Minnesota Resolution
- Richfield, Minnesota Resolution
- Richmond, California Resolution
- Salt Lake City, Utah Resolution
- San Benito, California Resolution
- San Diego, California Ordinance
- San Francisco CEDAW Ordinance
- San Jose CEDAW Ordinance
- Santa Barbara County, California Resolution
- Santa Clara, California CEDAW Ordinance
- Santa Monica, California CEDAW Resolution
- Sarasota, Florida CEDAW Resolution
- Seattle, Washington Gender Equality Resolution
- St. Paul, Minnesota Resolution
- St. Petersburg, Florida Resolution
- Sarasota, Florida CEDAW FAQ
- Tampa, Florida Resolution
- Toledo, Ohio Ordinance
- University City, Missouri Resolution
- US Conference of Mayors Resolution in support of Cities for CEDAW
- Washington, D.C. Ordinance
- Westchester County, New York Resolution
- West Hollywood, California CEDAW Resolution
- 2017 Gender Equity Resolution Adopted by the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies (IAOHRA)
Model Ordinance
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Other Resources
- Toledo Announces Commission
- Mayor Garcetti Issued Executive Directive on Gender Equity in City Operations
- Pittsburgh City Council approved measure to fight gender bias
- WEI – Our Work: Conventions and International Mechanisms: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the CEDAW Committee
- D.C City Council Pushed Forward Local CEDAW Initiative
- Mapping CEDAW Towards Greater Rights for Women: One City at a Time
- CEDAW Committee Chair Opening Remarks
- News Archive