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17th Meeting of States parties (New York, 26 June 2012): Election of the members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to replace those whose terms are due to expire on 31 December 2012

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is composed of 23 experts of high moral standing and competence in the field covered by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women1 Nominations for membership on the Committee may be made by States parties to the Convention, in accordance with article 17 of the Convention. The article states that “the experts shall be elected by State parties for a term of four years and shall serve in their personal capacity, consideration being given to equitable geographic distribution and to the representation of the different forms of civilization as well as the principal legal systems”.

The seventeenth meeting of States parties will take place in New York on 26 June 2012 with the aim of electing eleven members of the Committee, in view of the expiration of their term of office on 31 December 2012. States parties to the Convention are invited to nominate their candidates by 9 March 2012.

The nominations and biographical data form (Annex III) should be submitted to the CEDAW Secretariat, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland and in electronic (Word) version to BSmith@ohchr.org, copy to idelpilarsandoval@ohchr.org.

1. For the text of the Convention and the current status of participation including reservations and declarations, please refer to the United Nations Treaties Collection on the Internet at http://treaties.un.org.

General Information

Article 17	E | F | S
Membership of the Committee
Biographical data form (Annex III)	E | F | S
Resolution of the GA regarding equitable geographical distribution in the membership of the Human rights treaty bodies (A/RES/63/167)	E | F | S | A | C | R
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/66/36)	E | F | S | A | C | R

Documentation

Provisional agenda	CEDAW/SP/2012/1	A | C | E | F | R | S
List of candidates	CEDAW/SP/2012/2	A | C | E | F | R | S
List of candidates - Addendum	CEADW/SP/2012/2/Add.1	E
Draft rules of procedure of the meeting of the States parties	CEDAW/SP/2/Rev.1	A | C | E | F | R | S
Report of the 17th meeting of State Party, New York, 26 June 2012	CEDAW/SP/2012/3

List of candidates and their CVs as submitted by the States parties by 9 March 2012

Name	Nationality
Ms. Noor Al -Malki AL-JEHANI	Qatar
Ms. Dalia LEINARTE	Lithuania
Ms. Victoria POPESCU	Romania
Ms. Xiaoqiao ZOU	China
Ms. Nicole AMELINE	France
Mr. Niklas BRUUN	Finland
Ms. Silvia PIMENTEL	Brazil
Ms. Violet AWORI	Kenya
Ms. Nahla HAIDAR	Lebanon
Ms. Barbara BAILEY	Jamaica
Ms. Bianca POMERANZI	Italy
Ms. Theodora Oby NWANKWO	Nigeria
Ms. Fatimata DEMBELE DJOURTE	Mali
Ms. Olena SUSLOVA	Ukraine
Ms. Marie-Carmelle LAFONTANT	Haiti
Ms. Nuria CHINCHILLA	Spain
Ms. Zohra RASEKH	Afghanistan
Ms. Natalija MICUNOVIC	Serbia
Ms. Gloria BENDER	Argentina
Ms. Hilary GBEDEMAH	Ghana

Candidatures received after 9 March 2012

Name	Nationality
Mr. Lawrence William MUSONDA [Withdrawn]	Zambia
Ms. Muna ABUSULAYMAN	Saudi Arabia
Ms. Fatou Kiné CAMARA	Senegal
Ms. Virginie Sheryl Nicole N'DESSABEKA	Republic of the Congo
Ms. Sarah AL SHARJI	Oman
Ms. Mabruka Sheriff Jabril MAIDANI	Libya
Ms. Sawsan AL-BARRAK	Iraq