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消除对妇女歧视委员会在日内瓦召开第六十五届会议（部分翻译）
2016年10月24日
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日内瓦（2016年10月24日）——消除对妇女歧视委员会今天上午在日内瓦万国宫召开第六十五届会议，听取了人权事务高级专员办事处人权理事会和条约机制司人权条约处处长易卜拉欣·萨拉马（Ibrahim Salama）的发言，并通过了届会的议程和工作方案。
在开场发言中，萨拉马先生承认了理事会将妇女权利和性别平等在所有可持续发展目标和具体目标中主流化的坚决努力，并强调，在2030年议程和公约之间建立联系具有巨大的潜力，能够强化各国的责任，兑现促进和保护妇女权利以及实现真正的性别平等的诺言。萨拉马先生向委员会汇报了以下问题：9月19日纽约举行的联合国难民和移民问题峰会；人权理事会第三十三届会议，威迪·蒙丹蓬（Vitit Muntarbhorn）被任命为防止暴力侵害和基于性取向与性别认同的歧视的独立专家；世界卫生组织和人权事务高级专员办事处成立了高级别工作组，为落实2016-2030年全球妇女、儿童和青少年健康战略提供高级别政治支持。办事处9月发布的一份内部指南旨在确保所有调查委员会和实况调查团适当关注所有形式基于性别的暴力，关注人权侵犯的性别层面。
委员会主席林阳子（Yoko Hayashi）和萨拉马先生一同向离任的专家们致敬：阿尔多萨里女士（Al-Dosari），贝利女士（Bailey），布鲁恩先生（Bruun），皮门特尔女士（Pimentel），彭慕兰齐女士（Pomeranzi）和邹女士。自从上届会议以来，中非共和国加入了公约的任择议定书，使缔约国总数达到108个。公约缔约国数量依然是189个，接受了公约关于委员会会议时间的第20条第一款修正案的缔约国数量依然是70个。自从上届会议以来，马来西亚和沙特阿拉伯提交了定期报告，马绍尔群岛提交了首份报告，安提瓜和巴布达的定期报告已被退回，因为超出了大会规定的字数限制。
委员会随后通过了第六十五届会议的临时议程和工作组织，听取了关于后续报告状况的报告，以及关于第六十五届届会议会前工作组的报告，还听取了有关委员会专家在闭会期间开展活动的最新情况。
委员会公开会议的网络直播请见 http://webtv.un.org/
在第六十五届会议期间，委员会将审议加拿大、布隆迪、不丹、白俄罗斯、阿根廷、瑞士、洪都拉斯、亚美尼亚、孟加拉国、爱沙尼亚和荷兰的报告。所有关于委员会工作的文件，包括缔约国提交的报告，可以在届会网页查看。
委员会将在今天下午3点继续会议，与非政府组织和国家人权机构就加拿大、布隆迪、不丹和白俄罗斯的状况举行非正式公开会议，这些国家的报告将在本周接受委员会的审议。
Opening Statement
IBRAHIM SALAMA, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, thanked the outgoing Committee Members, whose diverse expertise and spirit of cooperation had enriched the work of the Committee. The determined efforts of the Committee to mainstreaming women’s rights and gender equality across all Sustainable Development Goals and targets had been recognized as evidenced by the invitation to provide input to the 2017 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. That would be a first time that a treaty body had an opportunity to showcase its contribution towards the 2030 Agenda. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women enjoyed almost universal ratification and was the only human rights instrument that provided comprehensive protection of human rights of women. Linking the 2030 Agenda to the Convention, and other human rights treaties, had a great potential to strengthen States’ accountability in delivering on their promises to promote and protect women’s rights and achieve substantive gender equality.
Updating the Committee on the relevant developments across the United Nations System, Mr. Salama said that the United Nations Summit on Refugees and Migrants on 19 September in New York had been the first summit at the Heads of State and Government level to agree on a blueprint for a coordinated, humane international response to large movements of refugees and migrants. It outcome, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, expressed the political will of world leaders to protect the rights and save lives of refugees and migrants and share responsibility for large population movements. During its thirty-third session in September 2016, the Human Rights Council had discussed the gender integration in the resolutions of the Council and in Universal Periodic Review recommendations, appointed Vitit Muntarbhorn as an Independent Expert on the protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, established a new mandate of Special Rapporteur on the right to development, and adopted a resolution on “Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights” without a vote but with amendments to controversial parts such as the references to the right to sexual and reproductive health.
In May 2016, the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had announced the establishment of a high-level working group of global champions to generate a high-level political support for the implementation of the Global Strategy on Women’s Children’s and Adolescent’s Health 2016-2030. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had published in September an internal guidance note on systematizing gender integration for commissions of inquiry and fact-finding missions, in order to ensure that adequate attention was paid to all forms of gender-based violence and to the gender dimension of human rights violations.
Adoption of the Agenda and Organization of Work and the Report of the Chairperson
The Committee adopted the provisional agenda and organization of work for the sixty-fifth session.
YOKO HAYASHI, Chairperson of the Committee, presenting her report on activities undertaken since the previous session, joined Mr. Salama in paying tribute to Ms. Al-Dosari, Ms. Bailey, Mr. Bruun, Ms. Pimentel, Ms. Pomeranzi, and Ms. Zou for whom this would be the last Committee session. The number of States parties to the Convention remained at 189, and the number of States parties having accepted the amendment to article 20, paragraph 1 on the Convention concerning the meeting time of the Committee remained at 70. The Chairperson recalled that, in order for this amendment to enter into force, the acceptance by 126 States parties to the Convention was required. The Central African Republic had acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention, bringing the total number of States parties to 108, and Malaysia and Saudi Arabia had submitted their periodic reports, while the Marshall Islands had submitted its initial report. The periodic report submitted by Antigua and Barbuda had been returned to the State party as it had exceeded the agreed length.
Turning to her inter-sessional activities, Ms. Hayashi said that she had briefed the participants of the meeting organized by the Gender and Law Society of Japan on 8 September 2016 on the process of updating General Recommendation No. 19, while on 10 October she had presented a statement to the Third Committee of the General Assembly and had participated in the interactive dialogue with Member States on the General Recommendation on women’s access to justice and on rural women, the Committee’s work on Sustainable Development Goals, and on updating General Recommendation No. 19 on violence against women. On 13 October, Ms. Hayashi had met with UN Women to discuss the Committee’s possible input on data relating to the different areas of law covered by the proposed Sustainable Development Goal indicators 5.1.1., and she had also met with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict Leila Zerrougui and received the briefing on the “Children, Not Soldiers” campaign.
Committee Experts provided an update on their respective activities during the intersessional period.
Pre-session Working Group Report and the Follow-up
ISMAT JAHAN, Committee Expert, briefed the Committee on the pre-sessional working group, which had prepared lists of issues with regard to the reports of Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Canada, Estonia, Honduras, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as well as a list of issues and questions in the absence of a report in relation to the implementation of the Convention in Antigua and Barbuda. The combined fourth to seventh periodic reports that Antigua and Barbuda had submitted in August 2016 had been returned as it had exceeded the word limit established by the General Assembly resolution 68/268. The consideration of Antigua and Barbuda had been postponed to a future session. The Working Group had also prepared, on a pilot basis, a list of issues prior to the submission of the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Romania under its optional simplified reporting procedure, scheduled to be considered at the Committee’s sixty-seventh session. The list of issues and questions, which had focused on themes covered by the Convention, had been transmitted to the States parties concerned.
XIAOQIAO ZOU, Committee Expert and the Reporter on Follow-ups, briefed the Committee on the status of follow-up reports received from States parties in reply to the Committee’s concluding observations, and said that during the previous session, she had met with the representatives of Equatorial Guinea who had appreciated the information shared. Follow-up letters had been sent to Cambodia, Finland, Guyana, Moldova, Pakistan, Syria, and the United Kingdom. First reminders of overdue follow-up reports had been sent to Cameroon, Kazakhstan and Sierra Leone, and second reminders to Cape Verde, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Committee had received delayed follow-up reports from Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Qatar, Serbia and Zimbabwe, while Bahrain, Colombia, and Iraq had submitted their follow-up reports on time.
在开场发言中，萨拉马先生承认了理事会将妇女权利和性别平等在所有可持续发展目标和具体目标中主流化的坚决努力，并强调，在2030年议程和公约之间建立联系具有巨大的潜力，能够强化各国的责任，兑现促进和保护妇女权利以及实现真正的性别平等的诺言。萨拉马先生向委员会汇报了以下问题：9月19日纽约举行的联合国难民和移民问题峰会；人权理事会第三十三届会议，威迪·蒙丹蓬（Vitit Muntarbhorn）被任命为防止暴力侵害和基于性取向与性别认同的歧视的独立专家；世界卫生组织和人权事务高级专员办事处成立了高级别工作组，为落实2016-2030年全球妇女、儿童和青少年健康战略提供高级别政治支持。办事处9月发布的一份内部指南旨在确保所有调查委员会和实况调查团适当关注所有形式基于性别的暴力，关注人权侵犯的性别层面。
委员会主席林阳子（Yoko Hayashi）和萨拉马先生一同向离任的专家们致敬：阿尔多萨里女士（Al-Dosari），贝利女士（Bailey），布鲁恩先生（Bruun），皮门特尔女士（Pimentel），彭慕兰齐女士（Pomeranzi）和邹女士。自从上届会议以来，中非共和国加入了公约的任择议定书，使缔约国总数达到108个。公约缔约国数量依然是189个，接受了公约关于委员会会议时间的第20条第一款修正案的缔约国数量依然是70个。自从上届会议以来，马来西亚和沙特阿拉伯提交了定期报告，马绍尔群岛提交了首份报告，安提瓜和巴布达的定期报告已被退回，因为超出了大会规定的字数限制。
委员会随后通过了第六十五届会议的临时议程和工作组织，听取了关于后续报告状况的报告，以及关于第六十五届届会议会前工作组的报告，还听取了有关委员会专家在闭会期间开展活动的最新情况。
委员会公开会议的网络直播请见 http://webtv.un.org/
在第六十五届会议期间，委员会将审议加拿大、布隆迪、不丹、白俄罗斯、阿根廷、瑞士、洪都拉斯、亚美尼亚、孟加拉国、爱沙尼亚和荷兰的报告。所有关于委员会工作的文件，包括缔约国提交的报告，可以在届会网页查看。
委员会将在今天下午3点继续会议，与非政府组织和国家人权机构就加拿大、布隆迪、不丹和白俄罗斯的状况举行非正式公开会议，这些国家的报告将在本周接受委员会的审议。
Opening Statement
IBRAHIM SALAMA, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, thanked the outgoing Committee Members, whose diverse expertise and spirit of cooperation had enriched the work of the Committee. The determined efforts of the Committee to mainstreaming women’s rights and gender equality across all Sustainable Development Goals and targets had been recognized as evidenced by the invitation to provide input to the 2017 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. That would be a first time that a treaty body had an opportunity to showcase its contribution towards the 2030 Agenda. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women enjoyed almost universal ratification and was the only human rights instrument that provided comprehensive protection of human rights of women. Linking the 2030 Agenda to the Convention, and other human rights treaties, had a great potential to strengthen States’ accountability in delivering on their promises to promote and protect women’s rights and achieve substantive gender equality.
Updating the Committee on the relevant developments across the United Nations System, Mr. Salama said that the United Nations Summit on Refugees and Migrants on 19 September in New York had been the first summit at the Heads of State and Government level to agree on a blueprint for a coordinated, humane international response to large movements of refugees and migrants. It outcome, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, expressed the political will of world leaders to protect the rights and save lives of refugees and migrants and share responsibility for large population movements. During its thirty-third session in September 2016, the Human Rights Council had discussed the gender integration in the resolutions of the Council and in Universal Periodic Review recommendations, appointed Vitit Muntarbhorn as an Independent Expert on the protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, established a new mandate of Special Rapporteur on the right to development, and adopted a resolution on “Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights” without a vote but with amendments to controversial parts such as the references to the right to sexual and reproductive health.
In May 2016, the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had announced the establishment of a high-level working group of global champions to generate a high-level political support for the implementation of the Global Strategy on Women’s Children’s and Adolescent’s Health 2016-2030. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had published in September an internal guidance note on systematizing gender integration for commissions of inquiry and fact-finding missions, in order to ensure that adequate attention was paid to all forms of gender-based violence and to the gender dimension of human rights violations.
Adoption of the Agenda and Organization of Work and the Report of the Chairperson
The Committee adopted the provisional agenda and organization of work for the sixty-fifth session.
YOKO HAYASHI, Chairperson of the Committee, presenting her report on activities undertaken since the previous session, joined Mr. Salama in paying tribute to Ms. Al-Dosari, Ms. Bailey, Mr. Bruun, Ms. Pimentel, Ms. Pomeranzi, and Ms. Zou for whom this would be the last Committee session. The number of States parties to the Convention remained at 189, and the number of States parties having accepted the amendment to article 20, paragraph 1 on the Convention concerning the meeting time of the Committee remained at 70. The Chairperson recalled that, in order for this amendment to enter into force, the acceptance by 126 States parties to the Convention was required. The Central African Republic had acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention, bringing the total number of States parties to 108, and Malaysia and Saudi Arabia had submitted their periodic reports, while the Marshall Islands had submitted its initial report. The periodic report submitted by Antigua and Barbuda had been returned to the State party as it had exceeded the agreed length.
Turning to her inter-sessional activities, Ms. Hayashi said that she had briefed the participants of the meeting organized by the Gender and Law Society of Japan on 8 September 2016 on the process of updating General Recommendation No. 19, while on 10 October she had presented a statement to the Third Committee of the General Assembly and had participated in the interactive dialogue with Member States on the General Recommendation on women’s access to justice and on rural women, the Committee’s work on Sustainable Development Goals, and on updating General Recommendation No. 19 on violence against women. On 13 October, Ms. Hayashi had met with UN Women to discuss the Committee’s possible input on data relating to the different areas of law covered by the proposed Sustainable Development Goal indicators 5.1.1., and she had also met with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict Leila Zerrougui and received the briefing on the “Children, Not Soldiers” campaign.
Committee Experts provided an update on their respective activities during the intersessional period.
Pre-session Working Group Report and the Follow-up
ISMAT JAHAN, Committee Expert, briefed the Committee on the pre-sessional working group, which had prepared lists of issues with regard to the reports of Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Canada, Estonia, Honduras, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as well as a list of issues and questions in the absence of a report in relation to the implementation of the Convention in Antigua and Barbuda. The combined fourth to seventh periodic reports that Antigua and Barbuda had submitted in August 2016 had been returned as it had exceeded the word limit established by the General Assembly resolution 68/268. The consideration of Antigua and Barbuda had been postponed to a future session. The Working Group had also prepared, on a pilot basis, a list of issues prior to the submission of the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Romania under its optional simplified reporting procedure, scheduled to be considered at the Committee’s sixty-seventh session. The list of issues and questions, which had focused on themes covered by the Convention, had been transmitted to the States parties concerned.
XIAOQIAO ZOU, Committee Expert and the Reporter on Follow-ups, briefed the Committee on the status of follow-up reports received from States parties in reply to the Committee’s concluding observations, and said that during the previous session, she had met with the representatives of Equatorial Guinea who had appreciated the information shared. Follow-up letters had been sent to Cambodia, Finland, Guyana, Moldova, Pakistan, Syria, and the United Kingdom. First reminders of overdue follow-up reports had been sent to Cameroon, Kazakhstan and Sierra Leone, and second reminders to Cape Verde, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Committee had received delayed follow-up reports from Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Qatar, Serbia and Zimbabwe, while Bahrain, Colombia, and Iraq had submitted their follow-up reports on time.
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