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Advocacy Goals & Resources

Committee Goals:

  • Work together on strategic issues advancing the status of women with other Zonta International committees and additional key stakeholders.
  • Increase visibility of issues and actions to end violence against women, advance equal rights and opportunities, and ensure justice under good laws at all levels of Zonta.
  • Enable members, clubs and districts to become more effective advocates.
  • Become a leading advocate on status of women issues per CEDAW Articles 1-16.
 
Policies
  Advocacy Policy | pdf
  Affiliation Policy | pdf
 
Additional Zonta Resources
   
  Advocacy Committee Newsletter
 
January 2013 | pdf  

In this Issue:

 
  • Regional advocacy reports from around the Zonta world
  • 57th CSW
  • CEDAW
  • and much more!
May 2012 | pdf  
February 2012 | pdf  
October 2011 | pdf  
   
  Advocacy Framework | pdf | ppt
   
  Advocacy/Service Project Scorecard, October 2012 | doc
   
  Advocacy - When to Take Action and at What Level | pdf
   
  Advocacy Process Checklist | pdf
   
  Advocacy Protocol | pdf | doc   Updated September 2010
   
  ISP and ZISVAW Scorecards, 2008-2010 | ppt
   
LAA Powerpoint, March 2009 | ppt
 
ZI and Disaster Relief (from The Zontian February 2010) | pdf   June 2010
 
Legislative Awareness and Advocacy Quiz | Quiz | Answers  June 2010
   
  External Resources and Publications
   
  Men at Work for Gender Equality, March 2013
   
  Italy Gender Stereotypes: Changing Attitudes towards Violence Against Women, March 2013
   
  WUNRN - Women's UN Report Network - Women and Girls - Human Rights, Oppression and Empowerment, 2013
   
  Applying Human Rights to Improve Access to Reproductive Health Services, 2012
   
  Council conclusions on Combating Violence Against Women, and the Provision of Support Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Council of the European Union, December 2012
   
  Labour Market Gender Gap: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, December 2012
   
 
   
  The Global Gender Gap Report 2012, Ricardo Hausman, Laura T. Dyson, Saadia Zahidi, World Economic Forum, 2012
   
Women and Climate Change | pdf, July 2011
 
Women and Climate Change Resources | pdf, July 2011
 
Women in Parliament in 2010 (Inter-Parliamentary Union) | pdf, 2010
 
Legislative Reform to Support the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (UNICEF) | pdf, August 2010
 
 

Civil and Political Rights, Including the Question of Religious Intolerance, Report submitted by Mr. Abedelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/42, Addendum, Study on freedom of religion or belief and the status of women in the light of religion and traditions, United Nations, April 2009

   
  Code of Good Practice for Civil Participation in the Decision-Making Process, Council of Europe, October 2009
   
 

Pathway to Gender Equality, CEDAW, Beijing and the MDGs, Lee Waldorf, UNIFEM, 2005

  Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Fourth World Conference on Women, September 1995
   
 
CEDAW Country Reports and Possible Advocacy Actions
CEDAW
Zonta and CEDAW Signatures/Reports - Current to 51st Session (2012) | pdf July 2011
 
Potential Advocacy Actions RE CEDAW Reports' Contents, Late Submission and Where Optional Protocol Not Signed/Ratified | pdf July 2011
   

Please note: Materials are for use by Zonta members, clubs, areas and districts only and should not be distributed to other groups, individuals or organizations.  The LAA Committee requests that materials not be altered as the content has been approved.

 
Other materials will be added to this page progressively during the biennium.

 

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