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PROCEDURES IF STATE/COUNTRY CEDAW
REPORT IS LONG OVERDUE.
CEDAW COMMITTEE MAY DECIDE TO REVIEW
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION IN THE ABSENCE OF A STATE REPORT.
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Ways and Means of Expediting the
Work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women -
CEDAW
16 May 2008
Excerpts - From Page 5 & Page 6
IV. Consideration of State Parties
in the Absence of Reports
14. "At its thrity-seventh session held from 15 January
to 2 February 2006, the Committee (CEDAW Committee) deicded to send letters to
12 States parties whose initial reports are more than 10 years overdue:
Bahamas
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Dominica
Grenada
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Lesotho
Liberia
Papua New Guinea
Seychelles
requesting that they submit their reports by a given date.
It also decided to request the four States parties whose
initial reports are more than 20 years overdue to submit all their overdue
reports as combined reports by March 2008, for consideration at its forty-third
session in January 2009
Dominica
Buinea-Bissau
Haiti
Liberia
Failing receipt of the reports within the suggested
time-frame, and as a measure of the last resort, the Committee decided to
proceed with considration of the implementation of the Convention in these
States parties in the absence of a report.
Similarly, the Committee identified a time-frame for the
submission of the overdue reports of the other States parties, nominating the
sessions at which they would consider these States parties in the absence of a
report in the event these reports were not submitted."
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Via IWRAW AP - International
Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
"Please direct your attention in particular to the
Committee's position with regards to the consideration of States parties whose
reports are long overdue (page 5 onwards). The Committee is taking steps to
encourage States parties to submit long overdue reports and this report
highlights the circumstances in which the Committee may decide to review the
implementation of the Convention in the absence of a State report."
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