Regional-Global Governance Network on Women's Rights: CEDAW and its implementation in ASEAN countries

This article attempts to highlight the concept of regional-global governance network by analyzing the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) implementation in ASEAN countries. This article is focusing on each ASEAN countries implementation and to what extent ASEAN governance linked to CEDAW governance network. This article used qualitative method by conducting in-depth interviews and content analysis on twenty eight documents. The finding indicates that most ASEAN member countries implemented similar initiatives and facing similar challenges. Secondly, there are some linkages in terms of platform, structure and network between ASEAN and CEDAW governance. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).