I was three months old when the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on December 18, 1979. Though I was happily unaware ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — “In many countries the CEDAW protocol has been approved, but Brazil will go down in history as the first and only in which such protocol was approved with the support of the ...

In the coming months, the Obama Administration and the Senate will have the chance to right a major wrong of the Bush era: the US government’s refusal–along with such beacons of women’s liberation as ...

H.E. Ambassador Penelope Beckles, Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, H.E. Ambassador Samson Itegboje, Chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the ...

In a move that has been described as groundbreaking, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands have expressed their intent to take the Taliban to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Japan’s decision to end its contribution to the U.N.’s top gender equality body could hardly come at a worse time, both diplomatically and symbolically. Japan’s decision to exclude CEDAW from the list ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In advance of the Bozeman City Commission’s upcoming meeting on April 4, Bridgercare is proud to ...

We write in advance of the 73 rd Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and its review of Qatar’s compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...

The government has been requested to put the recommendations of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) into action to eliminate domestic violence in ...