CEDAW and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Workshop, Panel 2: Relationships and Families

This episode continues our workshop on CEDAW and SOGI, with a panel focused on relationships and families.

Speakers:

• Danielle Roberts (HereNI)

• Imani Kimiri (National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission of Kenya)

Chair: Loveday Hodson (Leicester)

Women’s enjoyment of the substantive rights guaranteed under CEDAW – legal equality, nationality, education, employment, health, economic and social life, rurality, family life, political participation – are inextricably informed and shaped in important ways by their sexual orientation and gender identity.

This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committee’s current approach to sexual ori ...