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 ...

It’s the most important women’s rights law that hardly anyone has ever heard of. The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women aims to end discrimination in employment ...

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 ...

Tomorrow, November 18, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law will hold a hearing on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) — the ...

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 ...

Women’s rights activists in Tunisia are standing up to denounce the government’s inaction. After having withdrawn its reserves concerning the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...

MANILA, Philippines - Sen. Pia Cayetano welcomed yesterday a landmark ruling of a United Nations (UN) committee that held the government accountable for the court dismissal of the Karen Vertido rape ...

The Nigerian government ratified CEDAW in 1985 without reservations. Consequently, it is bound to fulfill all obligations stated in article 2 towards the promotion of the principles of CEDAW. The ...

As we know UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) convened its 57 session in early March in New York. Tens of women and NGOs from around the world attended the sessions and held various venues to ...