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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Please note that as of January 1 2008, sessions of CEDAW take place at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. For the new CEDAW page, please click here. CEDAW is monitored by the WILPF Geneva Office.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as the international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.

The Convention requires states to eliminate discrimination against women in the enjoyment of all civil, political, economic and cultural rights. It also establishes programmatic measures for states to pursue in achieving equality between women and men.

Session	Countries reporting	UN documents and links	NGO reports and Analyses	Statements
43rd Session Jan. 19 - Feb. 6 2009	Armenia, Cameroon, Dominica, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Rwanda	Agenda for session For state party reports, click HERE Concluding Comments	For links to NGO reports presented at the 43rd session, please click HERE For the report on the lunchbriefing 'Women and Conflict' please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the 43rd session, please click HERE
42nd Session Oct. 20 - Nov. 7 2008	Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Myanmar, Portugal, Slovenia and Uruguay	Agenda for session For state party reports, click HERE Concluding Comments	For links to NGO reports presented at the 42nd session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the 42nd session, please click HERE
41st Session June 30 - July 18 2008	Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Nigeria, Slovakia, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen	Agenda for session For state party reports, click HERE Concluding Comments	For links to NGO reports presented at the 41st session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the 41th session, please click HERE
40th Session Jan. 14 - Feb. 8 2008	Bolivia, Burundi, Saudi Arabia, France, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Morocco and Sweden	Agenda for session For state party reports, click HERE Concluding Comments	For links to NGO reports presented at the 40th session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the 40th session, please click HERE
39th Session July 23 - August 10 2007	The Cook Islands, Belize, Brazil, Estonia, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Singapore	Agenda for session For state party reports, click HERE Concluding Comments	Shadow Reports: -Norwegian NGO Report -Additional Shadow Reports	For statements made during the opening and closing of the 39th session, please click HERE
38th Session May 14-June 1 2007	Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Vanuatu	Agenda For state party reports, click HERE Concluding Comments: Serbia Sierra Leone	Shadow Reports: Serbia -Voice of Difference -European Roma Rights Centre Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone NGO Association PeaceWomen Analysis of the review of Serbia's report PeaceWomen Analysis of the review of Sierra Leone's report	For statements made during the opening and closing of the 38th session, please click HERE
37th Session Jan. 15-Feb. 2 2007	Austria, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Greece,India,Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Suriname	Agenda For state party reports, click HERE For concluding comments, click HERE	NGO reports and documents at 37th Session (from IWRAW Asia Pacific)	For statements made during the opening and closing of the session, please click HERE
36th Session August 7-25 2006	Cape Verde, Chile, China, Cuba, The Czech Republic, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark Georgia, Ghana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Mexico, Philippines Moldova, Uzbekistan	Agenda For state party reports, click HERE For concluding comments, click HERE	The implementation of CEDAW and Resolution 1325 in the DRC: A PeaceWomen Review For links to NGO reports presented at the 36th session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the session, please click HERE
35th Session May 15 -June 2 2006	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malaysia, St. Lucia, Turkmenistan, Cyprus, Guatemala, Malawi, Romania	Agenda For state party reports, click HERE For concluding comments, click HERE	PeaceWomen article on SCR 1325 and CEDAW in Bosnia and Herzegovina For links to NGO reports presented at the 35th session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the session, please click HERE
34th Session Jan. 16-Feb. 3 2006	Cambodia, Eritrea, Macedonia, Togo, Australia, Mali, Thailand, Venezuela	Agenda For state party reports, click HERE For concluding comments, click HERE	PeaceWomen summary and analysis of the 34th session For links to NGO reports presented at the 34th session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the session, please click HERE
33rd Session July 5-22 2005	Benin, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Gambia, Lebanon, Burkina Faso, Guyana, Ireland, Israel	Agenda For state party reports, click HERE For concluding comments, click HERE	PeaceWomen report of 33rd session For links to NGO reports presented at the 33rd session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the session, please click HERE
32nd Session Jan. 10-28 2005	Lao People's Democratic Republic, Samoa, Algeria, Croatia, Gabon, Italy, Paraguay, Turkey	Agenda For state party reports, click HERE For concluding comments, click HERE	For links to NGO reports presented at the 32nd session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the session, please click HERE
31st Session July 6-23 2004	Angola, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Latvia, Malta, Spain, Argentina	Agenda For concluding comments, click HERE For state party reports, click HERE	PeaceWomen report on the 31st session For links to NGO reports presented at the 31st session, please click HERE	For statements made during the opening and closing of the session, please click HERE
30th Session Jan. 12-30 2004	Belarus, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Germany, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Nigeria	Agenda For concluding comments, click HERE For state party reports, click HERE	PeaceWomen report on the 30th session Shadow reports: Ethiopia Kyrgyzstan	For statements made during the opening and closing, please click HERE