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dc.contributor.authorRimmer, Susan Harris
dc.contributor.editorThornton, M
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-21T22:42:56Z
dc.date.available2021-02-21T22:42:56Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.isbn9781921666766en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.22459/SDUT.09.2010.12en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/402432
dc.description.abstractOn the twentieth anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA), Elizabeth Evatt stated that Australia was ‘falling short on women’s rights’. Earlier in her UN role, she had said: ‘Ultimately we have to be judged not by our highest ambitions and achievements, but by our ability to raise from the lowest level those whose needs…are greatest. That is the way I would like Australia, and every other country, to be judged in the United Nations.’ This chapter reviews progress in Australia in the past five years according to Evatt’s criteria, and celebrates the role of Australians in creating multilevel strategies to ‘raise up’ Australian women by improving their lives and realise their rights. The issues are analysed through a biographical lens. I examine the crucial role of Evatt, Andrew Byrnes, Jane Connors and Helen L’Orange (in the development of the UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women). The argument is that domestic reform and engagement with the UN system can be a mutually enriching experience, although the Australian women’s movement has not always been effective in joining together international and domestic expertise and debates.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherAustralian National University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleSex Discrimination in Uncertain Timesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofchapter12en_US
dc.relation.ispartofchapternumbers14en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom293en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto320en_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLawen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Issuesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsWomen's Studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGovernment & Lawen_US
dc.titleRaising Women Up: Analysing Australian Advocacy for Women's Rights under International and Domestic Lawen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRimmer, SH, Raising Women Up: Analysing Australian Advocacy for Women's Rights under International and Domestic Law, Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times, 2010, pp. 293-320en_US
dc.date.updated2021-02-19T06:28:59Z
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gro.griffith.authorHarris Rimmer, Susan G.


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