Sustainable Corporate Law

The International Law for Sustainable Development Partnership

Gender, International Health and Environmental Law

Local Laws for the Global Commons: The Legal Implementation of Sustainable Development at the National Level

Subsidiarity in Sustainable Development Law and Governance

Gender, International Justice and Sustainable Development

The CISDL, along with many global and grassroots civil society organisations and experts, participated in the WAVE (Women’s Global Assembly) conference in Nairobi, and the following UNEP Experts Group on Gender and Environment, to discuss and debate issues relating to gender equality and women's empowerment. The 2004 WAVE endorsed a new legal research and awareness-raising project on Gender, Sustainable Development and International Law, proposed by the CISDL, which will result in a new book and set of educational resource materials over the next few years. The Experts Group advised UNEP on contents, including analysis of international treaties, for the2004 GEO Feature Focus on Gender and Environment. The CISDL, in collaboration with other members of the ILSD Partnership (UNEP, World Bank, IDLO and ILA) hosted consultations at the Governing Council of UNEP in Nairobi, 2005, and is developing the book proposal forpublication. Student researchassistants have been selected to work on this project, along with a LegalResearch Fellow, and an Associate Fellow. This team hasreceived a research support grant from the IDRC to allow potential researchpartners to jointly discuss, debate and prepare an IDRC full projectproposal on “Gender, International Law and Justice: Access to GenderEquality.“ It provides anopportunity for partners to investigate the lessons learned and potential for gender equality and empowerment relating to some of the most important treaties and international policy commitments of our time, and the potential to implement gender equality based on these global contracts and processes. The future project can lay the first steps for a careful examination of the links between ECOSOC General Comment 16, CEDAW, and otherinternational treaties in thefield of sustainable development, with a view to how these treaties can beaccessed and used to defend women’s equality on the ground in developingcountries on different continents.