Session girls6/25/2023 ![]() IBRAHIM SALAMA, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner and Representative of the Secretary-General, said it was an honour to open the eighty-fifth session of the Committee. this afternoon to hold an informal meeting with non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions to discuss the situation of women in Timor-Leste, Sao Tome and Principe, Germany and China, whose reports will be reviewed during the first week. The webcast of the Committee’s public meetings can be accessed via the UN Web TV webpage. Meeting summary releases can be found here. All documents relating to the Committee’s work, including reports submitted by States parties, can be found on the session’s webpage. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women’s eighty-fifth session is being held from 8 to 26 May. Nicole Ameline, Committee Expert and Chairperson of the pre-sessional working group, and Natasha Stott Despoja, Committee Alternate Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, also briefed the Committee on their work. The Chair and Committee Experts then discussed the activities that they had undertaken since the last session. In response, 13 States parties had indicated that they wished to opt out and maintain the traditional reporting procedure. ![]() Last year, the Committee had decided to make the simplified reporting procedure the default procedure for the submission of State party reports to the Committee. ![]() Since the last session, Belarus, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Saudi Arabia had submitted their periodic reports to the Committee. The total number of States parties that had ratified the Optional Protocol remained at 115. The campaign would raise awareness of the importance of women’s and girls’ equal representation and showcase their crucial contributions, as well as the barriers they continued to face.Īna Peláez Narváez, Chairperson of the Committee, said that since the last session, the number of States parties that had ratified or acceded to the Convention had remained at 189. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ campaign to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would align with this important topic, with the monthly thematic spotlight for June to be women’s participation in decision-making. Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Representative of the Secretary-General, said with its half-day of general discussion in February, the Committee had embarked on the elaboration of a new general recommendation which would provide significant guidance to States parties for ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life by 2030. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its eighty-fifth session, hearing a statement from a representative of the Secretary-General, and adopting its agenda for the session, during which it will review the reports of China, Germany, Iceland, Sao Tome and Principe, Slovakia, Spain, Timor-Leste and Venezuela.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |