Because of the United States’ minimal domestic engagement with human rights, several subnational initiatives, including the Cities for CEDAW campaign, have formed to infuse human rights into local policy making. Analyzing Miami-Dade County as one locale within the Cities for CEDAW network, this article asks what happens to human rights when they are turned into urban policies. Drawing on literature theorizing the complexities of urban human rights activism and using an interpretivist framework of analysis, the article reconstructs local context features and practices promoting gender equality through the countywide CEDAW ordinance. It develops a narrative based on expert interviews and finds an unusual actor constellation in which a local officeholder led the way rather than community activists. The practices identified work within institutional constraints and highlight data collection to support informed gender policy making. The findings lead to the conclusion that both activists and scholars should think beyond the dynamics of policy formulation and more explicitly about the complexities of implementation.

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女权离家近？迈阿密-戴德县《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》条例作为当地惯例

由于美国国内对人权的参与极少，包括“消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约”运动在内的若干次国家级倡议已经形成，旨在将人权融入地方政策制定中。本文将迈阿密-戴德县作为“消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约”网络城市中的一个地点进行分析，探讨当人权转化为城市政策时会发生什么。借鉴对城市人权活动的复杂性进行理论化的文献，并使用解释主义分析框架，本文重构了当地背景特征和通过全县范围的《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》条例促进性别平等的做法。它根据专家访谈展开叙述，并发现了一个不寻常的演员群，其中一位当地公务员而不是社区活动家带路。这些做法确定了体制限制内的工作，并强调数据收集以支持知情的性别政策制定。调查结果得出的结论是，活动家和学者都应该超越政策制定的动态，更明确地考虑实施的复杂性。