Making Rights Real for Future Generations: A CEDAW Workbook

Making Rights Real for Future Generations is a meticulously crafted workbook designed for the strategic implementation of human rights at the local level. This authoritative guide draws from the well-established recommendations of the Cities for CEDAW campaign, initiated in 2014 by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, in commemoration of Beijing + 20. Aligned with the overarching goal of the campaign to enforce the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), this workbook serves as an indispensable tool in the pursuit of gender equality and human rights for girls and women, embracing their rich diversity. Tailored for a discerning audience, it targets government officials, civil society leaders, and dynamic youth advocates, providing them with a comprehensive resource for informed decision-making and effective advocacy.

Krishanti Dharmaraj is a human rights advocate and a practitioner with three decades of experience working at the intersection of gender, race, and other identities at local, national, and global levels. She is the founder of Dignity Index, a methodology and a process to prevent and remedy structural discrimination and Dignidad360, an innovation lab to increase safety for women and girls in both public and private spheres. Krishanti is faculty at Glasgow Caledonian New York College, master’s program in DEI Leadership. Krishanti was the executive director of center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, she initiated the US Human Rights Network and was the founding executive director of Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) for Human Rights, where she spearheaded the work in San Francisco to pass legislation to implement an international human rights treaty-CEDAW.

Soon-Young Yoon is the UN representative for the International Alliance of Women. In 2021, she was appointed to the Council on Gender Equality convened by H. E. Ambassador, Abdhulla Shahid, the President of the 76 th UN General Assembly. During her past tenure as chair of the NGO CSW/NY, the committee launched the Cities for CEDAW campaign in the US. In 2020, she founded and is currently co-director of the Cities for CEDAW History and Futures Project. She was a Social Development officer for UNICEF in the Southeast Asia office as well as the SocialScientist at WHO/SEARO in New Delhi. She serves as a board member of the International Foundation for Ewha Womans University and on the Global Advisory Board of the Harvard AIDS Initiative. A former columnist for the EarthTimes newspaper, she is co-editor with Dr JonathanSamet of the WHO monograph, “Gender, Women, and the Tobacco Epidemic.”

Krishanti Dharmaraj is a human rights advocate and a practitioner with three decades of experience working at the intersection of gender, race, and other identities at local, national, and global levels. She is the founder of Dignity Index, a methodology and a process to prevent and remedy structural discrimination and Dignidad360, an innovation lab to increase safety for women and girls in both public and private spheres. Krishantiis faculty at Glasgow Caledonian New York College, master's program in DEI Leadership. Krishanti was the executive director of center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, she initiated the US Human Rights Network and was the founding executive director of Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) for Human Rights, where she spearheaded the work in San Francisco to pass legislation to implement an international human rights treaty-CEDAW.

Soon-Young Yoon is the UN representative for the International Alliance of Women. In 2021, she was appointed to the Council on Gender Equality convened by H. E. Ambassador, Abdhulla Shahid, the President of the 76 th UN General Assembly. During her past tenure as chair of the NGO CSW/NY, the committee launched the Cities for CEDAW campaign in the US. In 2020, she founded and is currently co-director of the Cities for CEDAW History and Futures Project. She was a Social Development officer for UNICEF in the Southeast Asia office as well as the Social Scientist at WHO/SEARO in New Delhi. She serves as a board member of the International Foundation for Ewha Womans University and on the Global Advisory Board of the Harvard AIDS Initiative. A former columnist for the EarthTimes newspaper, she is co-editor with Dr. Jonathan Samet of the WHO monograph, "Gender, Women, and the Tobacco Epidemic."