HOW CAN YOU ENGAGE IN THE CAMPAIGN?
We invite you to become peer leaders in your city or village. If you are an NGO, connect with a governmental organization, or with an NGO if you are governmental. This partnership is critical for success.
In addition, please take a look at the resources below to help you get involved and take action for the Cities for CEDAW campaign.
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
-
Nancy Kirshner Rodriguez, Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights Panel
-
KRISHANTI DHARMARAJ, “Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights”
-
SHELLEY WELSCH, “Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights”
-
ANASTASIA POSADSKAYA,”Sustainable Cities and Women’s Human Rights”
-
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
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