TRAINING MANUAL FOR JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS ON ENSURING WOMEN’S ACCESS TO JUSTICE

Improving the protection of women’s human rights is underpinned by legal system reform, and there are many
examples of how the legal landscape has undergone important change within recent decades at the international, regional and national levels. For instance, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is not yet 40 years old. Yet during the Convention’s lifetime more than half of the
world’s constitutions have been redrafted or amended, “an opportunity that has been seized upon by women
to write gender equality into the legal fabric of their countries”1
. Around three-quarters of national constitutions
guarantee equality between women and men, and almost two-thirds of nations have passed laws on domestic
violence,2
paving the way for women the world over to claim redress for violations of their rights.

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