THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CEDAW IN MALAYSIA: A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED ANALYSIS

women's rights

Abstract

This article attempts to analyse the implementation of CEDAW in Malaysia from the human rights-based perspective. It consists of background and matters related to CEDAW, discussion on the human rights based analysis of the CEDAW, Malaysia's position on CEDAW reservations, and actors involved. The core discussion of this paper is the analysis of CEDAW's implementation in Malaysia. This paper analysed three main documents, which are the State Formal Report 2004 (initial and periodic report), NGO's Shadow CEDAW Report (2004) and CEDAW Committee's Concluding Comments (2006).