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UN CEDAW Committee Document is Attached.

The General Assembly approved (by a near unanimous vote with one abstention) the UN GA Third Committee's Draft Resolution[1] to  increase the number of sessions of the CEDAW Committee from 2 sessions to 3 sessions per year.

The General Assembly agreed to:

• Authorize the Committee to hold 3 annual sessions of three weeks each, with a one-week pre-sessional working group for each session, for an interim period effective from January 2010, pending the entry into force of the amendment to article 20, paragraph 1, of the Convention.
• Authorize three annual sessions of the Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention.
Authorized the Committee to meet on an exceptional and temporary basis in 2008-2009 in a total of five sessions. Three of these sessions would occur in parallel chambers (taking due account of equitable geographical distribution, for the purpose of considering reports of States parties submitted under article 18 of the Convention). Two of the five sessions will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

(The above entails an amendment to Article 20 of the Convention to make the change permanent.)

IWRAW Asia Pacific

[1] UN GA Third Committee (on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues) Draft Resolution on 16 November 2007 (Document A/C.3/62/L.20/Rev.1)

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