7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF SWAZILAND
10 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined initial and second periodic reports of Swaziland on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Introducing the report of Swaziland, Khangeziwe Mabuza, Permanent Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister’s Office, said that after acceding to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2004, Swaziland had adopted a Constitution that contained a dedicated chapter on the…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF LITHUANIA
09 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the fifth periodic report of Lithuania on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Introducing the report, Gintaras Klimavicius, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Social Security and Labour, said that Lithuania had been a full member of the European Union since 2004 and its legislation had been harmonized with the European Union’s progressive gender equality law. The Third National Programme on Equal…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF GEORGIA
08 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of Georgia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Manana Kobakhidze, Head of the Gender Equality Council, Parliament of Georgia, introducing the reports, said that Georgia had signed the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women on 19 June and adopted a comprehensive anti-discrimination law in May 2014, which explicitly prohibited…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN DISCUSSES GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S RIGHT TO EDUCATION
07 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning held a half-day general discussion on girls’ and women’s right to education, in view of receiving inputs and contributions for its draft General Recommendation on the issue.
In her opening remarks, Violeta Neubauer, Committee Vice-Chairperson, said that different components of girls’ and women’s right to education had been recurrent issues of concern in the dialogue with States parties for the past 30 years. The lack of comprehensive coverage of this right…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY STAKEHOLDERS
07 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a national human rights institution to hear information on the situation of women in Georgia, Lithuania and Swaziland whose reports will be considered by the Committee this week, together with the report of the Central African Republic.
Representatives of NGOs in Georgia drew attention to the feminization of poverty, sex selective abortions and the situation of women drug users who were regarded…
7 years 1 month ago
UN WOMEN’S RIGHTS COMMITTEE HOSTS EVENT IN GENEVA ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
04 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
GENEVA (Issued as received) – Teachers, students, and education and human rights experts from around the world will on Monday gather at the Palais des Nations in Geneva for a half-day of discussion aimed at assisting the UN Committee on women’s rights to elaborate on the obligations of States to ensure the right to education for girls and women.
Among the keynote speakers at the event are Mariam Khalique, who was one of Malala Yousafzai’s teachers in Pakistan; student Hannah Godefa from Canada, who is UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador to Ethiopia; Kishore…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF SYRIA
04 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the second periodic report of Syria on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Presenting the reports, Kinda Al-Shammat, Minister of Social Affairs of Syria, said that important progress had been achieved in improving the health and education of women, their employment and political participation. Since the outbreak of the war in March 2011, the situation in the country had drastically changed,…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF MAURITANIA
03 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined second and third periodic reports of Mauritania on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Presenting the reports, Lemina Elghotob Ould Moma, Minister for Social Affairs, Children and Family, said that Mauritania spared no effort to strengthen the rule of law and democracy and had in place an institutional framework to improve the situation of women and to combat the scourges of…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF INDIA
02 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of India on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Presenting the reports, Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development of India, said that over the last few years, new legislation had been enacted, such as the 2013 amendments to the criminal law which included new offences, widened the definition of rape and the…
7 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS REPORT OF PERU
01 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Peru on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Presenting the reports, Jose Avila Herrera, Deputy Minister of Human Rights and Access to Justice, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Peru, said that the Ministry of Women had been created in 1996 with the mandate to combat discrimination against women and close the gender gap. The National…
