Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Comité pour l'élimination de la discrimination à l'égard des femmes
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Contact Details
URL: https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/cedaw
Founded
1982 Geneva Switzerland
History
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Monitor implementation of the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Events
87 past events available with paid subscription only.Activities
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- Links with: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- Links with: United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
- Links with: UN Women
- Links with: Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons
- Links with: Special Rapporteur on violence against women
- Links with: Working Group on Discrimination against Women
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
- Links with: Amnesty International (AI)
- Links with: Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
- Links with: Center for Reproductive Rights
- Links with: European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC)
- Links with: FIAN International
- Links with: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
- Links with: Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
- Links with: Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- Links with: International Alliance of Women (IAW)
- Links with: International Disability Alliance (IDA)
- Links with: International League for Human Rights (ILHR)
- Links with: Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
- Links with: IPAS
- Links with: Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights
- Links with: Musawah
- Links with: Plan International
- Links with: REDRESS
- Links with: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
- Links with: World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
- Links with: International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)
- Links with: Women's United Nations Report Network (WUNRN)
Publications
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- Society → Women
- International Relations → United Nations
- Peace → Equality
- Peace → Rights
- Peace → Discrimination
- Freedom → Freedom
UN Sustainable Development Goals **
UIA Org ID
XE6009
** UN SDGs are linked to the subject classification.
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