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How Human Rights Shape Social Citizenship: On Citizenship and the Understanding of Economic and Social Rights (Washington University Global Studies Law Review. Vol.13, No.2) Year of publication: 2014 Author: Ulrike Davy Corporate author: Washington University This Article reconceptualizes citizenship, a notion usually tied to the nation state, as “layered.” Human rights may serve as the international “layer” of citizenship, addressing nationals and non-nationals alike. It took some time, however, for “social” citizenship to emerge as a human rights issue and, hence, for human rights to become an international layer for social citizenship rights granted on the national level. Around 1993, states started to accept a human rights-based obligation toward the poor, requiring social policies to focus on targeted, individual welfare. Nowadays, poverty mitigation is the human rights core of “social” citizenship. Nowadays, poverty mitigation is the human rights core of “social” citizenship.
Central Asia and Mongolia. OSCE Sub-regional Expert Meeting on Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) In 2020, the OSCE Gender Issues Programme conducted a series of sub-regional expert meetings in order to take stock of progress towards fulfilment of OSCE commitments on preventing and combating violence against women and girls.The report summarizes the outcomes of the meeting aimed at exchanging information and identifying areas of progress as well as persistent challenges.
Uzbekistan: Failure to Protect Women from Domestic Violence (CEDAW submission) Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) This piece focuses on the problem of domestic violence against women in Uzbekistan. It identifies protection gaps in both domestic law as well as in practice, and makes recommendations to the government of Uzbekistan in anticipation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) periodic report of Uzbekistan on the implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 