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Gender Equality Laws: Global Good Practice and A Review of Five Southeast Asian Countries

The publication of Gender Equality Laws: Global Good Practice and A Review of Five Southeast Asian Countries, in part a response to the call from States parties for a resource establishing good practice guiding principles, is therefore a timely and important resource to assist actors, public and private, government and non government, in both the development of new gender equality laws as well as the implementation of existing gender equality laws. This publication examines and analyses gender equality laws from around the world, identifying those provisions that represent good practice from a CEDAW informed perpective - practices that are recognised for having worked in their respective contexts but are not intended however to be held as prescriptive measures for other countries. Rather, they serve as guiding principles for similar initiatives. This publication also provides a detailed analysis of five draft and enacted GEL in Southeast Asia, a region where governments and civil society are working together to ensure that a State party's ratification of CEDAW leads to actual reform of law and policy in all the areas of women's lives where discrimination is experienced.

Benchmarking National Legislation for Gender Equality: Findings from Five Asian Countries

The publication reviews the legal systems of Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Viet nam and assesses the extent of their legislative compliance with articles of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination agaisnt Women (CEDAW). The convention is an important international reference point for gender equality. The State Parties to CEDAW are legally bound to apply and enforce its articles in their legal systems. In this legislative assessment study only de jure compliance to CEDAW is assessed for the countries. But even for this, the findings reveal a varying level of legislative compliance. Overall, no country has achieved full compliance with CEDAW's articles. The extent of compliance ranges between 45 to 73 per cent, within de jure laws, with Viet Nam coming closest to the CEDAW benchmarks.

Viet Nam: Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control

This Law regulates the prevention and control of domestic violence, protecting and assisting the victims of domestic violence. This Law was passed by the XII National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at its 2nd plenary session on November 21st 2007, and came into effect on July 1, 2008.

Viet Nam: Law on Gender Equality

The Law on Gender Equality seeks to ensure gender equality in all fields of political, economic and social life in Viet Nam. The law was adopted at the 10th session of XI Legislature of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on 29 November 2006, and came into force on July 1, 2007.

Practitioner’s Guide to Designing Inclusive and Accountable Local Democratic Institutions

This guide is the first of its kind to provide an overview of the current range of local representative arrangements and electoral systems in Asia and the Pacific. This easy-to-use guide will assist country offices/teams and government partners as programmes are shaped to make local decision-making processes more inclusive and accountable to all citizens.

Consolidated Response on Gender Mainstreaming in South-East Asia

This consolidated response highlights the role of international organizations, national governments, and non-profit women’s organizations in mainstreaming gender into national policies and legislation of the South-East Asian countries.

Women In Politics In Vietnam

This paper gives an overview of the political system of Vietnam, summarizes various policies and legislations aimed to advance women’s participation in politics, and presents statistics on women’s participation in leadership and decision-making positions. It also offers recommendations to further promote Vietnamese women's political participation.

Land and Use Rights and Gender Equality in Vietnam

This report describes a pilot project in north central Vietnam, which has instituted an approach to land titling that gives both women and men rights to use land. It discusses how the project has increased opportunities for rural families to use their most productive asset to generate income, and how it has promoted a gender-responsive, low cost, and decentralized method of land titling.