The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, was established by the CEDAW to monitor the implementation of the Convention by States parties, held its first session in October 1982. This year the Committee is celebrating 30 years of dedicated work in assisting States parties in complying with their international treaty obligations under the Convention to protect and promote women's rights. The 23 CEDAW Committee members met in Istanbul between 1-3 November 2012 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of CEDAW and to discuss new General Recommendations on gender related dimensions of refugee status, asylum and statelessness, economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution, women’s access to justice, rural women and the use of the CEDAW Optional Protocol and recent cases. The CEDAW Committee is working on six different General Recommendations all of which refer to critical and “burning issues” in the area of women’s human rights and gender equality. They are: · General Recommendation on Protection of Women’s Human Rights in Conflict · and Post-conflict Situations · General Recommendation on Rural Women · General Recommendation on Women’s Access to Justice · General Recommendation on Economic Consequences of Divorce · General Recommendation on Refugees, Asylum and Statelessness · CEDAW& CRC General Recommendation/ General Comment on Harmful Practices Click here to read the Statement by Ms. Kang Kyung-Wha, Deputy High Commissioner and Assistant Secretary-General on the 30th Anniversary of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women,, Istanbul, 1 November 2012 Click here to read the Statement by Ms. Silvia Pimentel, Chair on the 30th Anniversary of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Istanbul, 1 November 2012 Click here to read the Statement by Ms. Feride Acar, Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. |