Reclaim Your Rights;
Human Rights Framework
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Background to Framework
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Glasgow Women’s Voluntary Sector Network (GWVSN) was set up in 1994 to ensure that projects working with women in Glasgow had a forum for responding to, influencing and shaping Glasgow City Council’s equality agenda.
Originally hosted by Wise Women to bring together individual women, whether paid or unpaid in third Sector Services, to provide a forum for sharing information, mutual support, and networking. The women had a sole or part remit to work specifically with women and were working towards alleviating the exclusion and discrimination faced by women in Glasgow.
In 2018 GWVSN recruited women who have used these services to replace workers on the GWVSN. The remit of GWVSN, to deliver two Open Space and two workers sessions per annum, continued to be the same, but as the Network developed, the women expressed a desire to learn about and utilise the United Nations Convention on Human Rights as a framework to identify and highlight the experiences of women in Glasgow and beyond.
GWVSN secured funding from Glasgow City Council Community Grants Fund to purchase a Human Rights Course from
Making Rights Real, a national organisation that aims “to support marginalised communities to use the power of human rights to mobilise for economic and social change.”
From this learning Wise Women has supported GWVSN to develop this Human Rights Framework.
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Contents
This Framework has been designed to provide women with a process to recognise violations of their human rights, to explore solutions and identify who has the responsibility to improve the situation. We have provided women with all the information we think they may need, however we recognise that we do not all have the time or wish to access lots of information. The Framework therefore can be used without reading all of the information.
You can access the information in three ways, you can;
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download the PDF from Wise Women’s website www.wisewomen.org.uk/gwvsn. This will give you a printable document that includes all the information you will need for the Framework. The document is separated into different sections allowing you to print off the sections you require. Word versions of the worksheets are available on the website. These can be adjusted to suit your needs. All we ask is you reference Glasgow Women’s Voluntary Sector Network on materials.
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follow the website pathway by clicking the button at the end of each page to move on to the next section.
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access the section you wish to read by clicking on the relevant heading on the website.​