Tag: CEDAW
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AHRC President Faces Questions Over Youth Gender Care and Women’s Rights
On 29 April 2026, Hugh de Kretser delivered his inaugural Australian Human Rights Assessment address at the National Press Club in Canberra amid growing controversy surrounding the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Equal Identities: A human rights review of the experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia, released in March 2026. The report has…
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Analysis of The Australia Human Rights Commission’s Equal Identities Report
Women Speak Tasmania has carefully reviewed the Australian Human Rights Commission’s March 2026 report, Equal Identities – A human rights review of the experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia. While the report claims to advance human rights, its 19 recommendations would seriously undermine the sex-based rights of women and girls in Australia…
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Analysis of The Yogyakarta Principles and Why They Conflict with Women’s Rights Under International Law
What are the Yogyakarta Principles? The Yogyakarta Principles (often called “YP”) are a set of 38 principles plus 111 extra state obligations created in 2006 and updated in 2017. They claim to show how existing international human rights law should apply to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. They are not a…
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Analysis of CEDAW: What It Is, What It Means for Women, and Why It Matters in Australia
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) What Is CEDAW? The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is often described as the international bill of rights for women. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and in force since 1981, CEDAW legally obliges…
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Does Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Listen to Women?
At the National Press Club address on 24 September 2025, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Anna Cody, was asked a direct question by Dr Megan Poore of the Women’s Advocate about whether she would use her powers to ensure that women’s groups working for sex-based rights are meaningfully consulted in law and policy. CEDAW Article 7…