Leveraging CEDAW for Resilient Systems with Marion Bethel

​The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is known as the bill of women's rights, and it was ratified by The Bahamas in 1993. Marion Bethel recently completed her second and final term as a CEDAW Committee Member, reviewing UN Member States, assessing their progress toward compliance, and making recommendations. We will be in conversation with Marion Bethel about the basics of CEDAW, ways to use it in our advocacy, and the importance of building systems that make it unnecessary for us, as individuals, to be "strong," "resilient," and able to "bounce back" on our own.

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​Marion Bethel has been actively involved in the women’s movement in The Bahamas and the Caribbean since the mid-1980s. She has worked in the area of human rights principally in regard to gender equality, gender-based violence against women and girls, sexual health and reproductive rights, and abolition of the death penalty. In July 2014, Ms. Bethel was awarded the Eleventh CARICOM Triennial Award for Women for her noted contribution to the field of Gender and Development in the Caribbean. She was elected to the Committee of the UN Convention on the Elimination on All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in June 2016 and completely her second and final term on the Committee in October 2024.