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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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Report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Twenty-seventh Session

8 October 2002 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Twenty-sixth Session

7 May 2002 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Twenty-fourth Session (15 Janury-2 February 2001) and Twenty-fifth Session (2-20 July 2001)

31 October 2001 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Twenty-second Session (17 January-4 February 2000) and Twenty-third Session (12-30 June 2000)

19 August 2000 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Twenty-second session (17 January-4 February 2000); Twenty-third session (12-30 June 2000)

30 June 2000 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Twenty-second session (17 January-4 February 2000), Twenty-third session (12-30 June 2000)

2000 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Fifteenth Session

1996 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

25 February 1994 | Publisher: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Sessional Reports

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