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Gender, International Justice and Sustainable Development: Further, a team composed of a Legal Research Fellow, an Associate Fellow, international partner researchers and a number of student research assistants received a research support grant from the IDRC to allow partners to jointly discuss, debate and prepare a project proposal on Gender, International Law and Justice: Access to Gender Equality. The project comprises an investigation of NGOs as agents for implementation of international norms and users of international law. It is a first step in understanding how and why actors and processes subject to the same norms result in different domestic and local outcomes. What are the prevailing conditions in domestic and local contexts which lead to varying degrees of implementation of these international norms? Laws, programmes and policies must target country-specific realities in order to render international norms relevant and effective, and the NGO role of localizing universal standards is integral to this process. The project lays the foundations for a careful examination of the links between ECOSOC General Comment 16, CEDAW, and other international treaties in the field of sustainable development, with a view to how these treaties can be accessed and used to defend women’s equality on the ground, in a number of developing countries on different continents.
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