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UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.

The Convention defines discrimination against women as "...any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field."  Website: www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/index.htm
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M.P.W. v. Canada

13 April 2012 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Countries: Canada - Mexico

Guadalupe Herrera Rivera v. Canada

30 November 2011 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Countries: Canada - Mexico

N.S.F. v. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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12 June 2007 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Domestic violence - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Expulsion - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) - Single heads of household - Women-at-risk | Countries: Pakistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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