Committee Scheduled to Meet Next in May, August 2007
In the past three weeks, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women had considered implementation of the Women’s Convention in a diverse group of countries with a broad range of challenges, including India, with a population of over one billion in an entire sub-continent, and the Maldives, with some 360,000 people on a group of islands, Dubravka Šimonoviæ, the Committee’s Chairperson and expert from Croatia, said as the Committee concluded its thirty-seventh session this afternoon.
Meeting for the second time in two parallel chambers in an effort to reduce a backlog in reports, the Committee had considered the periodic reports of Austria, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Greece, India, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Suriname and Viet Nam, and an initial report by Tajikistan.
The Committee had been impressed by the significant number of new laws adopted by several reporting States, Ms. Šimonoviæ said. It had also been able to assess the scope and content of gender equality policies or gender perspectives in national development policies that were significant vehicles for promotion of gender equality. Experts had heard about programmes and activities to improve women’s access to health, education and economic opportunities, to full and equal participation in public life and decision-making and to protection from all forms of violence. The Committee also encouraged all reporting States to strengthen consultation with women’s non-governmental organizations in the follow-up to its concluding comments.
MORE http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/wom1605.doc.htm
Please also see:
‘Medical’ trend with female genital mutilation disturbs UN agency
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21456&Cr=women&Cr1
Secretary-General saddened by death of Angela King,
Former Special Adviser on advancement of Women
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/sgsm10870.doc.htm
In the past three weeks, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women had considered implementation of the Women’s Convention in a diverse group of countries with a broad range of challenges, including India, with a population of over one billion in an entire sub-continent, and the Maldives, with some 360,000 people on a group of islands, Dubravka Šimonoviæ, the Committee’s Chairperson and expert from Croatia, said as the Committee concluded its thirty-seventh session this afternoon.
Meeting for the second time in two parallel chambers in an effort to reduce a backlog in reports, the Committee had considered the periodic reports of Austria, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Greece, India, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Suriname and Viet Nam, and an initial report by Tajikistan.
The Committee had been impressed by the significant number of new laws adopted by several reporting States, Ms. Šimonoviæ said. It had also been able to assess the scope and content of gender equality policies or gender perspectives in national development policies that were significant vehicles for promotion of gender equality. Experts had heard about programmes and activities to improve women’s access to health, education and economic opportunities, to full and equal participation in public life and decision-making and to protection from all forms of violence. The Committee also encouraged all reporting States to strengthen consultation with women’s non-governmental organizations in the follow-up to its concluding comments.
MORE http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/wom1605.doc.htm
Please also see:
‘Medical’ trend with female genital mutilation disturbs UN agency
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21456&Cr=women&Cr1
Secretary-General saddened by death of Angela King,
Former Special Adviser on advancement of Women
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/sgsm10870.doc.htm