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The
countries scheduled to report at the 46th
CEDAW session are: Albania,
Argentina, Australia, Central African Republic, Fiji, Grenada, Papua New
Guinea, Russian Federation, Seychelles, Turkey.
The
Pre-Session Working
Group for this session will meet from 10 to 14 August 2009 to
consider the reports and prepare a List of Issues and Question. NGOs can
submit their alternative report or a list of critical issues and questions they
want to CEDAW Committee to raise with their government.
The deadline for submission of NGO information for the 46th CEDAW Pre-Session is 27 July 2009. NGOs wishing to submit information for the Pre-Session are to email their List of Issues or Shadow report to cedaw@ohchr.org (and cc iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org) and post 10 copies to:
Human Rights - New York Office (OHCHR-NYO)
Secretariat of CEDAW
United
Nations Secretariat, room S-2914-G
First Avenue
at 42nd Street
New
York, NY 10017
USA
NGOs
can also attend the
Pre-Session. The Pre-Session Working Group has set aside Monday 10 August
2009 for NGOs that wish to address it.
Attached for your information, is an NGO Note (see page 3 & 4) which sets out details about the Pre-Session.
Request: Please share this alert with NGOs from Central African Republic, Grenada and Seychelles in particular, as we have no contacts with NGOs in these reporting countries.
Lee Wei San
Programme Officer
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
80-B Jalan Bangsar
59200 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: (603) 2282 2255
Fax: (603) 2283 2552
Email: iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org / iwraw_ap@yahoo.com
Website: www.iwraw-ap.org
International Women’s Rights Action
Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) is an international organisation based
in the South that plays a critical role in filling the gap between the promise
of women's human rights embodied in human rights treaties, and their actual
realisation at the national level. This involves mobilising women's groups at
all levels to draw accountability from governments on the domestic application
of human rights standards. This is done primarily through the lens of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW) and other international human rights treaties. Established in 1993,
IWRAW Asia Pacific currently works throughout South and Southeast Asia and over
100 countries globally.
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