Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
PeaceWomen monitors the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in the lead up to and during its sessions. The Committee was established in 1982 to monitor implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The Committee meets every year in at least two sessions of three weeks each. The sessions take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and it is expected that one session per year will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
For more information about the Committee's work, please see About CEDAW.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
The CEDAW Committee is currently in the process of conducting regional consultations and expects to present the General Report by the Summer Session to be held in New York in 2013.
The Schedule of regional consultations includes; Bangkok, 27 -28 March, Addis Ababa, 12 -13 April, Istanbul, 11 May, Guatemala, 14 May. For further information please contact OHCHR.
49th Session , New York 11 - 29 July 2011 Costa Rica, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Italy, Nepal, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Zambia
48th Session Geneva 17 January - 4 February 2011
Bangladesh, Belarus, Israel, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, South Africa
47th Session Geneva 4 - 22 October 2010
Burkina Faso, Chad, Comoros, Czech Republic, Lesotho, Malta, Tunisia, Uganda
46th Session
July 2010
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Central African Republic, Fiji, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation, Seychelles, Turkey, India
45th Session
January 2010
Botswana, Egypt. Malawi, Netherlands, Panama, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
For information about Sessions prior to 2008, please see the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women website, which provides information about the Convention, the Optional Protocol and the work of the Committee up until 31 December 2007.
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