· Adoption: Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1979 and entered into force in 1981. · Status: Often described ...

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 ...

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 last of the substantive provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, Article 16) relates to gender equality in marriage and the family. When ...

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 ...

We write in advance of the 73 rd Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and its review of Qatar’s compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...

IntroductionOver the past seven decades, international law has undergone a profound transformation in its treatment of women's rights and gender equality. A new academic paper examining this evolution ...

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 ...

Accra, Oct. 23, GNA- Nana Oye Lithur, a women's rights activist on Thursday called for more support to Parliament to promulgate the Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against ...

The CEDAW Committee in its last review of Kuwait in 2011 called on the government to “review the Nationality Act to ensure equality between women and men with regard to the acquisition, change and ...