Sentence examples for cedaw in from inspiring English sources

Indonesia has also ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw) in 1984.

In 1974, President Nixon appointed Republican activist Patricia Hutar to lead a bipartisan delegation to draft the text of CEDAW in Geneva.

Morocco ratified the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1993.

It continues to mirror the language of CEDAW in its use of the term the "exploitation" of prostitution.

It submitted its second and third reports to the Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women (CEDAW) in 1998.

At government level, this is  evidenced by the ratification of major international treaties (including CEDAW in 1998) and major legislative breakthrough in the area of women's rights with the adoption of a gender sensitive Family Code in 2002.

CEDAW, adopted in 1979, sets the international human rights standard against gender discrimination.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly and acceded to by 180 States, sets down rights for women, of freedom from discrimination and equality under the law.

Despite that, Tunisia had lodged a series of reservations to clauses in Cedaw which grant equal rights to men and women in family matters, including: Equal rights to pass on nationality to their children.

The Environment and Gender Index (EGI) provides the first quantitative data on governments' performance translating the gender and environment mandates in the three Rio Conventions and CEDAW into national policy and planning.

It was one of the first countries to sign up to Cedaw – way back in 1980 – and women accounted for more than 20% of its members of parliament.