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CEDAW Committee
On Jan 1, 2011, four new Members from Turkey, Switzerland, Paraguay, Timor Leste and Bangladesh will join the CEDAW Committee. Profiles on these new members are available from OHCHR .
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.
CEDAW Elections 2010
Deadline for states to submit names of candidates for the CEDAW Committee announced (9 March). See here for more details and suggestions on action and lobbying.
46th CEDAW , 12 - 30 July 2010
At this CEDAW session, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation and Turkey will be reviewed. Please visit the OHCHR session webpage for relevant documents.
Recent IWRAW Asia Pacific News & Activities
Round
table on women’s human rights and migration/trafficking with GAATW
and Caram Asia
Campaign on the use and ratification of OP CEDAW:
Tell us how you did it! Strategies for Ratification of CEDAW and
the Optional Protocol to CEDAW.
Recent CEDAW News
CEDAW:
The reporting schedule for 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th and 49th Session released.
Recent Publications
The OPCEDAW As A Mechanism For Implementing Women’s Human
Rights: An analysis of cases No 6- 10 under the communications procedure
of the OP-CEDAW. Click here.
OP CEDAW Resource Guide (available now in English, French, Spanish,
Russian, Nepali, Japanese) Click here
New Series: OP CEDAW Technical Papers Series. First paper on requirements
of the rule on exhaustion of domestic remedies. Click here
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