Cities for CEDAW: Notes on Effective Intervention

Effective intervention usually requires involvement at more than one level.  This presentation examines the efforts to support an international instrument - the UN onvention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women - by involving cities.  In the United States, the aim was to have 100 Cities for CEDAW by the end of 2015.  These cities were each to develop a resolution; ordinance; gender analysis of cities activities, programs and issues; community-government monitoring committee; and implementation funds.  A case study of one city - Cincinnati, Ohio - is discussed with special attention to the involvement of college students, community organizations and city council members.