How arms exports can violate the human rights of women in Gaza

October 18, 2024:

On 16 October 2024, Eszter Kismödi, Chief Executive of SRHM spoke to James Yap, Acting Director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Anjli Parrin, Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School about a report which reviews Canada’s complicity in violations of women’s rights to maternal healthcare in Gaza.

Both of these institutions jointly prepared a submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) highlighting Canada’s consistent shortcomings in meeting its transnational human rights obligations and following extensive research conducted by the clinics on the grave impact of the conflict in Gaza on women and children since October 7, 2023.

This report has been endorsed by almost 50 feminist, labour, cultural, faith-based, antiwar, and human rights organizations, who are all calling on the CEDAW Committee to hold Canada accountable for its support of serious violations of women’s rights in Gaza through arms exports to Israel and tax subsidies to charitable organizations that aid the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Read the full report here: FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY FAIL? ASSESSING CANADA’S HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS IN GAZA
Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the Occasion of the Committee’s Review of Canada’s 10th Report

This 28 minute interview is available below. The recording is also available on the SRHM Podcast, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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The SRHM Journal has been documenting human rights violations for more than 30 years, with a rich history showing how international human rights law impacts people’s lives. As conflicts continue in different parts of the world, SRHM is calling for a wide range of forms of evidence, including perspectives from those involved, service delivery accounts, rapid qualitative and quantitative research, critical analyses and testimonies related to SRHR in conflict. Please read more about this call for papers (link)As an SRHR community, we must continue to document the rights violations, to amplify the specific SRH harms being caused and to mobilise for action to ensure SRHR are protected, especially in times of crisis and for generations to come.

“Ultimately, what really matters and what’s going to change the experience of people day to day is its implementation, and that requires popular change, that requires change from doctors and experts and everybody involved in implementing and upholding those human rights. And so I think having these conversations in a journal space, talking to experts across disciplines about the real broad set of harms to sexual and reproductive rights, especially in times of conflict, is just so critical and so crucial, and that’s ultimately what will move the needle to improving the situation and changing things for the better”. Anjli Parrin

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