Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women
United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women in 1979.
Full Text of the Convention
- Lyda Verstegen, IAW Honorary President gives an introduction and short history on CEDAW
- Joint Open Letter on Threat to CEDAW Session dated June 7, 2019
Cities for CEDAW
- Soon-Young Yoon, IAW Representative at UN New York on Breaking News in 2023 and the campaign Cities for CEDAW
IAW submitted an intervention to the WGDAWG
Positive evaluation and likely listing as best practice (localisation of CEDAW)
The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (WGDAWG) came to UN Headquarters from Geneva, Switzerland to meet with UN Secretary General Guterres recently and pressed for closer cooperation, especially with its work on peacebuilding and economic status of women.
During its time in NYC the Working Group invited local NGOs to attend a consultation session. I was pleased to attend the session on behalf of the IAW and give a summary of the campaign to localize CEDAW throughout the US.
The chair of the Working Group asked for additional information and after reviewing the following submission, advised me that it will consider identifying the localizing CEDAW campaign as a best practice in its upcoming reports.
Jill Follows
IAW Representative at UN Headquarters NY
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