Marsha A. Freeman is Director of the International Women's Rights Action Watch and a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center. IWRAW is an international women's human rights resource centre and pioneered the shadow reporting to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Dr. Freeman is the editor of Assessing the Status of Women, a guide to using the CEDAW Convention, and author of Women's Economic, Cultural and Social Rights, a manual for working with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Christine Chinkin has law degrees from the universities of London and Sydney and Yale Law School. She has taught international law in Singapore, Australia and the United States as well as in the United Kingdom. She is a member of Matrix Chambers and the author of many articles on international human rights law, especially relating to women's human rights. She has been a consultant to the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Since 1 January 2010, Professor Beate Rudolf has been the Director of the German Institute for Human Rights. Prior to that, she was a junior professor for public law and equality law at the faculty of law of Freie Universität Berlin and director of the research project "Public International Law Standards for Governance in Weak and Failing States" within the Research Center "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood". Her research focuses on human rights and legal principles on state structures under public international law, European law and German constitutional law as well as from a comparative law perspective.

• 1: Christine Chinkin and Marsha A. Freeman: Introduction


• 2: Christine Chinkin and Beate Rudolf: Preamble


• 3: Andrew Byrnes: Article 1


• 4: Andrew Byrnes: Article 2


• 5: Christine Chinkin: Article 3


• 6: Frances Raday: Article 4


• 7: Rikki Holtmaat: Article 5


• 8: Janie Chuang: Article 6


• 9: Sarah Wittkopp: Article 7


• 10: Sarah Wittkopp: Article 8


• 11: Savitri W.E. Goonesekere: Article 9


• 12: Fareda Banda: Article 10


• 13: Frances Raday: Article 11


• 14: Rebecca J. Cook and Veronica Undurraga: Article 12


• 15: Beate Rudolf: Article 13


• 16: Fareda Banda: Article 14


• 17: Savitri W.E. Goonesekere: Article 15


• 18: Marsha A. Freeman: Article 16


• 19: Christine Chinkin: Violence Against Women


• 20: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 17


• 21: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 18


• 22: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 19


• 23: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 20


• 24: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 21


• 25: Ineke Boerefijn: Article 22


• 26: Andrew Byrnes: Article 23


• 27: Andrew Byrnes: Article 24


• 28: Susann Kroworsch: Article 25


• 29: Susann Kroworsch: Article 26


• 30: Susann Kroworsch: Article 27


• 31: Jane Connors: Article 28


• 32: Susann Kroworsch: Article 29


• 33: Susann Kroworsch: Article 30


• 34: Jane Connors: Optional Protocol