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This article addresses the impact of CEDAW as International Treaty on women’s human rights on gender equality policies in Spain. This assessment comes at a time of crisis in the UN system of Human Rights. The article analyses both the content of the CEDAW recommendations to Spain since the eighties and the path, discourse and strategies of the main actors involved in the periodic review: State Party, experts of the Committee and feminist and human rights organizations. The research method combines document analysis and interviews with key informants representing the three main actors in this process. It will be argued that while CEDAW has served as an inspiration and international legitimization of gender equality laws, and contributed to the internationalization of the feminist movement, the increased complexity and bureaucracy of the periodic review has not meant further implementation of the Committee’s recommendations. The article ends with a discussion on the main gaps in the Spanish Administration that hinder the effectiveness of the Convention in the advancement of women’s human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this issue, we analyze historically the social, economic and political situation of the women in Spain. Along the history, the woman in Spain, has been excluded from the public areas and has been isolated of the forums of discussion; as a consequence, she has been relegated to the family nucleus and her fundamental labor was to transmit the traditional moral values and to educate the children. This situation has prevailed in Spain up to the democracy: From then (1978), a series of changes have been happening that transform the situation of the women with their participation in the public sphere (work, politics, art, mass media) and with a change into the model of familiar relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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