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 |
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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.
States | Pending | impermissible | set | violation | No violation | Registered |
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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
- ^ A b c Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women - Membership. In: ohchr.org. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Handbook for the individual complaint (analogous)
- ^ Statistics of the committee . Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ↑ UN decision database