Background to Framework 

 

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, who had a sole or part remit of working with women, to provide a forum for sharing information, mutual support, networking and who are 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 Network. The remit of GWVSN, delivering two Open Space and two workers sessions per annum, continued to be the same, but as the Network developed women expressed a desire to learn about and utilise the UN 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.