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The Icelandic Women’s Rights Association (IWRA) was founded in 1907 to fight for women’s suffrage and political equality between women and men.
IWRA works on women’s rights and the equal status of all genders in all areas of society. The association works on the basis of human rights and works against all kinds of discrimination.
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Resources on Gender Equality in Iceland
The Icelandic Women’s Rights Association regularly publishes reports on gender equality in Iceland.
Two recent reports available in English is a shadow report on Iceland’s implementation of CEDAW − the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and a study about online violence against women in Iceland, Denmark and Norway.
Iceland has gone further than most other countries to achieve gender equality and eliminate discrimination against women, but we have a long way to go to achieve full equality.
In preparation for Iceland’s CEDAW review in 2016, the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association and Icelandic Human Rights Office have submitted a shadow report to the UN CEDAW Committee, on Iceland’s implementation of the Convention.
Read the report here.
The Icelandic Women’s Rights Association has published the report Online Violence Against Women in the Nordic Countries by Ásta Jóhannsdóttir, Mari Helenedatter Aarbakke and Randi Theil Nielsen. The report was written in cooperation with Kvinderådet in Denmark and KUN in Norway.
Each country conducted a study of survivors’ experience of online violence and their search for protection from and justice for that violence, as well as interviewing police and legal actors who have worked with cases of online violence.
Read the report here.
