This training guide and workbook uses the framework of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) to demonstrate "the holistic nature of human rights as a powerful tool for action in the achievement of full equality, well being, and participation in the decisions that determine women's lives."

The book provides examples of women's initiatives throughout the world that strive to work within the BPFA framework and aims to prepare the readers to use human rights as a tool for systemic analysis and for social and economic transformation.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Shulamith Koenig
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors

Part One: The Conceptual and Pragmatic Framework of Women's Human Rights

• Introduction
• Chapter I: Gender and the International Human Rights Instruments: Fifty Years of Standard Setting from UDHR to CEDAW
• Chapter II: The Beijing Platform for Action: Concerns, Standards and Goals
• Chapter III: Critical Areas of Concern I and L: Human Rights from a Gender Perspective
• Chapter IV: Critical Area of Concern K: Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women

Part Two: Working with the BPFA's Critical Areas of Concern

• Chapter V: Critical Area of Concern A: Women and Poverty
• Chapter VI: Critical Area of Concern B: Education and Training of Women
• Chapter VII: Critical Area of Concern C: Women and Health
• Chapter VIII: Critical Area of Concern D: Violence Against Women
• Chapter IX: Critical Area of Concern E: Women and Armed Conflict
• Chapter X: Critical Area of Concern F: Women and the Economy
• Chapter XI: Critical Area of Concern G: Women in Power and Decision-Making
• Chapter XII: Critical Area of Concern H: Women and the Media
• Chapter XIII: Critical Area of Concern J: Women and the Environment

Epilog by Ivanka Corti
Glossary
Bibliography
Appendices

• Unofficial Summary of UDHR
• Unofficial Summary of ICESCR
• Unofficial Summary of ICCPR
• Unofficial Summary of CEDAW
• Unofficial Summary of CERD
• UNICEF Summary of CRC
• Unofficial Summary of CAT
• DAW Summary of BPFA

About PDHRE

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"Passport to Dignity" is a companion to the video/manual set of "Women Hold Up the Sky", a training programme on CEDAW. Click here to read more about "Women Hold Up the Sky".

Click here to read the full press release for "Passport to Dignity".

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