Human Rights Day
The annual Terre Haute Human Rights Day is a day-long event with the focus on a different article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights each year as the theme.
Each year a keynote speaker is featured along several other speakers, interactive workshops, diversity march, dramatic performances and a variety of other activities. While centered on the Indiana State University campus, the programming represents the work of many individuals from both ISU and the Terre Haute community, and will involve both public school and university students.
Human Rights Day 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Theme: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 1979. The Convention aims to elimination "distinction, exclusion, or restriction which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women…of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, or any other field."
The Convention includes several provisions related to the legal status of women, human reproduction, and the impact of cultural factors on gender relations. Among the provisions, are the following:
- Elimination of prejudice and practices based on the idea of inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes
- Shared responsibility of women and men in the upbringing and development of children
- The right to vote, hold public office, and participate in NGO’s
- The right to retain nationality, regardless of the nationality of one’s husband
- Equal access to education
- Equal rights and protections in regards to employment and appropriate considerations for pregnant women in the workplace
- The right to participate in sport
- Equal access to health services
- Access to maternal to health care
- The right to bank loans and financial credit
- Equality before the law
- Equality in marriage and family relations
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