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In Paraguay, a visual tribute to the CEDAW Committee

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Todas las Mujeres has shown me once again the importance of exercising my powers of observation. To observe is to observe ourselves. In seeing those women, I saw myself. Making Todas las Mujeres for me meant reconnecting with my world. It was a reconnection with the world,” says Paz Encina, the Director responsible for making the documentary Todas las Mujeres: Un homenaje al Comité de la CEDAW [All Women: a Tribute to the CEDAW Committee].
 
Todas las Mujeres has shown me once again the importance of exercising my powers of observation. To observe is to observe ourselves. In seeing those women, I saw myself. Making Todas las Mujeres for me meant reconnecting with my world. It was a reconnection with the world,” says Paz Encina, the Director responsible for making the documentary Todas las Mujeres: Un homenaje al Comité de la CEDAW [All Women: a Tribute to the CEDAW Committee].
 

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Women’s Rights at Risk in Afghan Peace Process

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Women’s Rights at Risk in Afghan Peace Process

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Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the rights of Afghan have progressed: Women are in school, the workplace and government.
 
But those advances could well be jeopardized in coming months, according to a new report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
 

Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the rights of Afghan have progressed: Women are in school, the workplace and government.
 
But those advances could well be jeopardized in coming months, according to a new report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).