2022-2025
After contributing to the adoption of CEDAW’s General Recommendation 30 on women’s human rights in conflict and post-conflict contexts in 2013, DAWN later expands its engagement with Treaty Bodies through the submission of shadow reports, oral statements, and participation in country reviews at the committees of the CEDAW, CESCR (Convention of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) and CERD (Convention of Racial Discrimination).
DAWN engages with CEDAW reviews of Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland in 2022; Germany and France in 2023; and Japan and Canada in 2024. These interventions highlight the gendered and extraterritorial dimensions of mining and extractivism in Papua New Guinea, French nuclear testing in Polynesia, Japan’s radioactive wastewater dumping, and Canadian involvement in deep-sea mining.
DAWN also engages with the CERD and the CESCR review of the UK in 2024 and 2025, focusing on COVID 19 and access to vaccines, medicines and therapeutics and the role of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).