Maldives’ record on women’s rights to face scrutiny by UN
Committee
GENEVA (23 February 2015)
– Maldives’ record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Friday
27 February in meetings that will be webcast live.
Maldives 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 Maldives Government on questions relating to the promotion and
protection of women’s rights in the country. The session will take place in
Conference Room XVI at Palais des Nations in Geneva from 10:00 -17:00 (14:00 –
21:00) in Maldives). The live webcast can be viewed at
http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/.
Among the possible issues to be discussed are: deep-rooted
stereotypes and prejudices against women; violence against women; steps to
address trafficking in women, including assistance to foreign women victims of
trafficking; training of teachers, removal of gender biases and stereotypes in
textbooks, provision of age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health
education; widespread and clandestine abortions; programmes and services aimed
at preventing HIV transmission among women engaged in prostitution and female
intravenous drug users.
Maldives’ written report and more information can be found
here:
CEDAW’s concluding observations on Maldives and the other
States being examined – Gabon, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Tuvalu, Denmark, Kyrgyzstan
and Eritrea - 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
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