Kyrgyzstan’s record on women’s rights to face scrutiny by UN
Committee
GENEVA (23 February 2015)
– Kyrgyzstan’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on
Wednesday 25 February in meetings that will be webcast live.
Kyrgyzstan is one of the 188 States parties to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and
so is required to submit regular reports to the Committee of 23 independent
experts on how it is implementing the Convention.
The Committee will engage in a dialogue with the delegation
from the Kyrgyz Government on questions relating to the promotion and
protection of women’s rights in the country. This will take place in Conference
Room XVI at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 10:00 - 17:00 (15:00 - 22:00
in Bishkek). The live webcast can be
viewed at http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/.
Among the possible issues to be discussed are: measures to
promote more representation of women at the decision-making level; number of shelters for victims of domestic
violence; training for officials on
causes and consequences of domestic violence; data on patterns and dynamics of
trafficking in women; education dropout
rates among girls in rural areas; equal pay;
declining but still worryingly high level of maternal mortality; decline
in use of contraceptives; measures to
tackle prevalence of bride kidnapping.
Kyrgyzstan’s written report and more information can be
found here:
CEDAW’S concluding observations on Kyrgyzstan and the other
States being reviewed - Gabon,
Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Tuvalu, Denmark, Eritrea, and Maldives - will be published on 6 March here:
ENDS
To learn more about the Committee on the Elimination of the
Discrimination against Women, visit:
http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cedaw/pages/cedawindex.aspx
For more information and media requests, please contact Liz
Throssell (+41 (0) 22 917 9466/ ethrossell@ohchr.org
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