LibGuides: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Equal Status and Human Rights of Women

INSTRUMENTS

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession of December 1979 and entry into force September 1981.
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
A/RES/54/4. Adopted 1999
Article 2
"Communications may be submitted by or on behalf of individuals or groups of individuals, under the
jurisdiction of a State Party, claiming to be victims of a violation of any of the rights set forth in the Convention
by that State Party. Where a communication is submitted on behalf of individuals or groups of individuals, this
shall be with their consent unless the author can justify acting on their behalf without such consent."

MECHANISMS

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

The Committee, Views by the Committee and Reports by the Special Rapporteurs

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.