Ensuring every country commits to dismantling discriminatory laws, and to enforcing rights in practice is key to the UN CEDAW ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi – The Hawai`i State Commission on the Status of Women received the annual achievement award from the National Association of Commissions for Women (NACW), a national organization ...

Adopted in 1979 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) – the most far-reaching international commitment ...

In late July, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to send a United Nations treaty on women's rights to the floor for consideration, its chairman, Joseph Biden, D-Del., said he supported ...

A basic right for Iranian women could be guaranteed within an Islamic framework of governance provided those in government were inclined to interpret the faith in the spirit of equality, says Shirin ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — “In many countries the CEDAW protocol has been approved, but Brazil will go down in history as the first and only in which such protocol was approved with the support of the ...

The second justification for the reservation is that the Bangladesh Constitution already grants equal rights to women therefore the need to lift those reservations does not exist. This blatant ...

We are writing to express our concern about Morocco's apparent delay in lifting its reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). During your ...

In a major step forward in the protection of older women’s rights, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee has adopted a new general ...