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CEDAW connects pensions, unpaid care, inheritance and health with inequalities accumulated across life, challenging the portrayal of older women as merely dependent.
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / 3 minsAdopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter links bodily autonomy and material rights to feminist organizations’ accountability and shared leadership.
African Feminist Forum / 5 minsCabnal connects land defense with bodily autonomy while challenging internal patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality and idealized ancestral traditions.
Lorena CabnalA joint FAO, IFAD and ILO report asks how gender shapes paid and unpaid work on and off farms - and what decent rural employment requires.
FAO; IFAD; ILOBuilt from reports by groups in thirty countries, Musawah’s global study argues that unequal Muslim family laws are historically constructed and therefore open to reform grounded in faith, rights, constitutions, and lived reality.
Musawah / 35 minsRecommendation No. 26 follows departure, transit, employment and return, connecting recruitment debt, dependent status, labor-law exclusions and barriers to complaint.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / 3 minsThe 2007 Quito Consensus connects political parity, shared family responsibilities and the recognition of unpaid work.
Tenth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the CaribbeanThe principles apply existing human rights law to sexual orientation and gender identity, connecting recognition, bodily autonomy and family protection.
International human rights expertsThe law brings paid domestic work into working-time limits, rest, social protection and wage bargaining, exposing tensions between household privacy and labor rights.
Poder Legislativo de Uruguay / 3 minsThe African Union’s 2004 declaration links parity with land, peace, services and reporting; its political commitments differ from the Maputo Protocol’s legal framework.
Assembly of the African Union / 3 minsThe Maputo Protocol links reproductive autonomy, land, domestic work and public budgets, while leaving implementation open to scrutiny.
African UnionEmi Koyama connects gender autonomy, healthcare and feminist alliances, then revisits the manifesto’s exclusions in a critical postscript.
Emi Koyama