Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Tag

Optional but Unequal: Why a Sex-Based Turn and a New Optional Protocol Could Undermine the Global Fight Against Gender-Based Violence

[Vashti Ortego is the Global to Local Advocacy Officer at IWRAW Asia Pacific, working on gender equality and women's human rights. She is a transfeminist from the Visayas in the Philippines.] Introduction For more than three decades, the international community has recognized violence against women and girls as a form of gender-based discrimination. This understanding is firmly grounded in the practice of...