КОНВЕНЦИЈА О ЕЛИМИНАЦИЈИ СВИХ ОБЛИКА ДИСКРИМИНАЦИЈЕ ЖЕНА И ЊЕНА УЛОГА У АРТИКУЛАЦИЈИ КОНЦЕПТА ДИСКРИМИНАЦИЈЕ И АФИРМАЦИЈИ ПОЛИТИЧКИХ ПРАВА ЖЕНА
THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN, AND ITS ROLE IN DEFINING THE CONCEPT OF DISCRIMINATION AND PROMOTING WOMEN’S POLITICAL RIGHTS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author analyzes the role and attainments of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its significant role in articulating and promoting the development of women’s political rights, as well as the attained level of women’s political rights. At the institutional level, the process of eliminating discrimination against women in politics (as a process aimed at building a humane democratic society) was embodied in the work of international organizations, which established and defined international legal standards in the field of women’s political rights. The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was a result of a long process of reflection, interpretation, defining and strengthening the legislative framework regulating prohibition of discrimination against women at the international level. It is a widely accepted binding international document which articulates and defends women’s rights, the principle of non-discrimination, and the principle of gender equality in society. The paper is structured as a response to two central questions. The first one concerns the the concept of discrimination against women, and the second one focuses on the particular problem of discrimination against women in politics, and how women exercise their political rights. The aim is to examine how this Convention provided for the exercise of women’s political rights, or whether it may be considered as “yet another unfulfilled social agreement”.

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