Human Rights Watch is pleased to have the opportunity to offer input for the Committee’s Day of General Discussion on the rights of Indigenous women and girls. Human Rights Watch has documented the ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — “In many countries the CEDAW protocol has been approved, but Brazil will go down in history as the first and only in which such protocol was approved with the support of the ...

States parties have to submit a national report to the Committee within one year of accession or ratification of CEDAW and thereafter every 4 years or when the Committee requests. In the reports, ...

Japan’s recent decision to halt funding for the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has drawn significant attention. The move comes in ...

During the drafting of CEDAW, a complaints procedure was suggested, but this was not taken up. Some delegates argued that complaints procedures were needed for "serious international crimes" such as ...

The government has been requested to put the recommendations of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) into action to eliminate domestic violence in ...