47th CEDAW Review Session
4 - 22 October 2010
At this CEDAW session, Bahamas, Burkina Faso, Czech Republic, Malta, Tunisia and Uganda will be reviewed. Exceptionally, India will also be reviewed. Please visit the OHCHR session webpage for relevant documents.
IWRAW Asia Pacific will also be holding its From Global to Local programme to facilitate participation of women’s human rights advocates and organisations from this group of countries to attend the review sessions in Geneva to support their strategies for holding their states accountable for CEDAW treaty obligations.


CEDAW Committee ‘s Jurisprudence
New decision by the CEDAW Committee, case of Karen Vertido v Philipppines. Also available on the OHCHR website.

Shadow Reports
Shadow reports for the 41st and 42nd CEDAW Session are now available at IWRAW Asia Pacific.


The General Assembly approved the UN General Assembly Third Committee's Draft Resolution to increase the number of sessions of the CEDAW Committee from 2 sessions to 3 sessions per year. This entails an amendment to Article 20 of the Convention to make the change permanent.

The Secretariat has made available online summary records from the eighteenth to the forty-second sessions of CEDAW. These are useful documents that record the dialogue between the Committee and States parties. Note that the transfer of the Secretariat from DAW to OHCHR is effective January 1, 2008.


Links to articles, reports and publications
The second edition of Our Rights Are Not Optional! Advocating for the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) through its Optional Protocol has been published. It can be downloaded for free here.

Occasional Papers Series Nos. 11, 12 and 13 are now available for downloading.

IWRAW-AP Programmes
IWRAW-AP is currently working with participants of the 44th and 45th Sessions through our Global to Local programme.