Hearing This Thursday! For the first time in 8 years, the Senate will hold a hearing on CEDAW this Thursday, November 18th, at 2 pm in 226 Dirksen Senate building. The hearing will take place in the ...

Grace Melton is a Senior Associate in The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ...

THE Bahamas, through the Department of Gender and Family Affairs of the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development, is diligently preparing to ensure proper representation at the upcoming ...

FRIDAY, October 6, marked the 30th anniversary of The Bahamas ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It was marked by a proclamation, printed ...

Speakers at a press conference today urged the government to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) fully to ensure gender equality. They also ...

The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW in short, was adopted in 1979, and came into force in 1981. To date, a total of 189 countries ...

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The meeting was called to order at 10.10 a.m. Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention (continued) Third periodic ...

Professor Rangita De Silva De Alwis has been elected to the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women for the term 2023-2026 representing Sri Lanka at the elections ...

Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the United Nations. The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of "faith ...

Although I shall be arguing that we should not ratify the CEDAW convention, I want first to speak as a feminist who would very much like to see a realistic international effort for securing women’s ...