In the case of CEDAW, the OP consists of the Communications Procedure, which enables people to complain directly to the CEDAW monitoring committee, and the Inquiry Procedure, which empowers the CEDAW monitoring committee to investigate systematic forms of discrimination against women.
Criticisms of CEDAW include its failure to integrate discrimination based on sexual orientation and ethnicity.
In effect, the Saudi government claims the right to ignore any part of Cedaw it doesn't like.
Although a number of states expressed reservations in their acceptance of CEDAW, the US did not.
Those who criticize CEDAW from the right as guaranteeing a parade of horribles misconstrue the range of legitimate interpretations of CEDAW through the world.
An individual complaints mechanism was suggested during the original drafting of CEDAW, but was rejected at the time.
Apart from the issue of gender equality, U.S. ratification of CEDAW is essential to U.S. political power.
During the 1990s, the organization moved from viewing the Convention primarily as a basis for global advocacy to exploring both its role, and the role of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), as normative frames of reference for the design and implementation of programmes of cooperation with national partners.
Bungled implementation of a good idea.
Yet implementation of the deal remains daunting.
Public administration, the implementation of government policies.
