{"id":3572,"date":"2015-08-09T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T04:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:29:23","slug":"promises-not-progress-burmas-national-plan-for-women-falls-short-of-gender-equality-and-cedaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"PROMISES NOT PROGRESS: Burma\u2019s National Plan for Women Falls Short of Gender Equality and CEDAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Summary<\/p>\n<p>In late 2013, the Government of Burma\/Myanmar (\u201cthe Government\u201d) issued a National Strategic Action Plan for the\u00a0Advancement of Women 2013-2022 (NSPAW) based in part on its obligations under the Convention to End All Forms of\u00a0Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Heralded as a \u201chistoric and essential step towards substantive equality between\u00a0women and men,\u201d NSPAW was released amidst a flurry of other governmental plans, strategies, promises, and\u00a0actions ostensibly aimed at transforming the country into a democracy. However, conspicuously missing from these\u00a0reforms, including NSPAW, were deeper systemic overhauls of the many legal, political, cultural and socio-economic barriers to the full enjoyment of human rights in Burma which must underpin any true democracy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3576\" src=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oth_doc_cov4-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oth_doc_cov4-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oth_doc_cov4-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oth_doc_cov4-545x705.jpg 545w, https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/oth_doc_cov4.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/promises_not_progress.pdf\" class=\"sc-button sc-button-default\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Summary In late 2013, the Government of Burma\/Myanmar (\u201cthe Government\u201d) issued a National Strategic Action Plan for the\u00a0Advancement of Women 2013-2022 (NSPAW) based in part on its obligations under the Convention to End All Forms of\u00a0Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Heralded as a \u201chistoric and essential step towards substantive equality between\u00a0women and men,\u201d NSPAW was<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3572\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cedaw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4594,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/4594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}