UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women of the United Nations ( English Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women , CEDAW) is a committee of 23 experts, who since 1982 compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( English Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ). To this end, it meets twice a year, examines the reports that the signatory states have to submit every four years, and publishes “general debates” on the Convention. The Committee can also examine and investigate individual violations of the Convention, but only in Member States of the Additional Protocol to the Convention.

The chair of the committee is Hilary Gbedemah from Ghana (as of 2020).

Members of the CEDAW committee

138 people have been active on the committee since its inception. With the Norwegian Gunnar Bergby and the Azerbaijani Elgun Safarov, two men also belong to the committee.

Surname	country	in office until
Gladys Acosta Vargas	Peru	December 31, 2022
Hiroko Akizuki	Japan	December 31, 2022
Tamader Al-Rammah	Saudi Arabia	December 31, 2022
Nicole Ameline	France	December 31, 2020
Gunnar Bergby	Norway	December 31, 2020
Marion Bethel	Bahamas	December 31, 2020
Louiza Chalal	Algeria	December 31, 2022
Esther Eghobamien-Mshelia	Nigeria	December 31, 2020
Naéla Gabr	Egypt	December 31, 2022
Hilary Gbedemah	Ghana	December 31, 2020
Nahla Haidar	Lebanon	December 31, 2020
Dalia Leinarte	Lithuania	December 31, 2020
Rosario G. Manalo	Philippines	December 31, 2020
Lia Nadaraia	Georgia	December 31, 2022
Aruna Devi Narain	Mauritius	December 31, 2022
Ana Pelaez Narvaez	Spain	December 31, 2022
Bandana Rana	Nepal	December 31, 2020
Rhoda Reddock	Trinidad and Tobago	December 31, 2022
Elgun Safarov	Azerbaijan	December 31, 2022
Wenyan song	People's Republic of China	December 31, 2020
Genoveva Tisheva	Bulgaria	December 31, 2022
Franceline Toe Bouda	Burkina Faso	December 31, 2022
Aicha Vall Verges	Mauritania	December 31, 2020

complaints

The complaints submitted to the UN are first examined by the Secretariat of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Then the complaint is either rejected or forwarded to the CEDAW committee, where the complaint is registered and forwarded to the state concerned for comment, whereupon the state concerned can raise the objection of inadmissibility.

Decisions of the CEDAW

States	Pending	impermissible	set	violation	No violation	Registered
Germany	1	0	0	0	0	1
Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0	0	0
Austria	1	0	0	2	0	3
Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0
A total of 104 states	26th	17th	7th	15th	1	67

The figures are without the complaints already rejected by the Secretariat of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The individual decisions can also be called up in the UN database.

Web links

• CEDAW on the website of the United Nations (Engl.)
• Rules of Procedure (2004) (PDF file; 100 kB)

Individual evidence 

1. ^ ^{A b c} Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women - Membership. In: ohchr.org. Retrieved May 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Handbook for the individual complaint (analogous)
3. ^ Statistics of the committee . Retrieved June 8, 2017.
4. ↑ UN decision database