Sentence examples for the cedaw from inspiring English sources

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.

Once governments ratify the convention, they are obligated to submit reports on a regular basis to the CEDAW monitoring committee regarding their compliance: first one year following ratification and then at least once every four years thereafter.

As a consequence of the Indonesian ratification of the CEDAW, various specific new policies were implemented, one of which was the Ministry Of Women Empowerment and Child Protection that took the lead in coordinating the implementation of the CEDAW.

"We should be an example to the world by ratifying the CEDAW and promoting the future of our women".

"There is no contradiction to what is written in the Koran and the CEDAW," said Farideh Mashini, of the Women's Study Centre.

The CEDAW claims that gender equality should be an overarching guiding principle in UNFCCC and related agreements dealing with the impact of climate change on humans as well as adaptation measures (32).

The progress of Eastern Caribbean countries towards achievement of the children and women's rights stipulated in the CRC, CEDAW and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been mixed.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE The programme details three main results to be achieved by 2016: (a)   Equity-sensitive national policies, programmes and budget allocations are made based on reliable, disaggregated data  reflecting the  actual situation of girls and boys and their families in line with the CRC, CEDAW and the Millennium Development Goals.

The US has played a key role in crafting the Women's Equality Treaty (CEDAW), the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Disability Treaty, the Arms Trade Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and many other important agreements that reflect core US ideals.

But the rights CEDAW promotes would indeed constitute progress in gender equality.

UNICEF stresses the linkages between the CRC and CEDAW, and uses the two in conjunction as a comprehensive basis for consideration of the rights of girls.