UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women to review: Gabon, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Tuvalu, Denmark, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Maldives

GENEVA (10 February 2015) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is meeting in Geneva from 16 February to 6 March to review women’s rights in the following countries:

Gabon (17 Feb); Azerbaijan (18 Feb); Ecuador (19 Feb); Tuvalu (20 Feb); Denmark (24 Feb); Kyrgyzstan (25 Feb); Eritrea (26 Feb); Maldives (27 Feb)

The above are among the 188 States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and so are required to submit regular reports to the Committee of 23 international independent experts that monitors the implementation of the Convention. The Committee will also hear briefings from NGOs and national human rights institutions.

CEDAW’s dialogues with the above States Parties will take place from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00 at Palais des Nations – Room XVI. Live webcasts of the session can be viewed on http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/.

The Committee's concluding observations will be published on 6 March here: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=901&Lang=en

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To learn more about the Committee on the Elimination of the Discrimination against Women, visit: http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cedaw/pages/cedawindex.aspx

For more information and media requests, please contact Liz Throssell (+41 (0) 22 917 9466/ ethrossell@ohchr.org

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