CEDAW Committee acknowledges role of NGOs and IWRAW Asia Pacific in the CEDAW process
In her opening speech at the start of the 34th CEDAW Session, the Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee), Ms. Rosario Manolo, paid a tribute to NGOs saying, “This Committee has always greatly benefited from the inputs of national NGOs”. “[T]his process of mobilization of the NGO community” she added, “has also had a great beneficial impact on the implementation of the Convention domestically”.
Ms. Manalo also specifically thanked IWRAW Asia Pacific “for its continuing excellent encouragement and support to national non-governmental organizations towards the preparation of shadow reports, and for channelling this information so effectively to Committee experts” at the same time calling on all donors to recognise the importance of such work, particularly since the number of States parties that will be considered annually would increase in the coming years (“from 16 in 2005, to 31 in 2006, to 38 in 2007”)
IWRAW Asia Pacific project “From Global to Local” that supports the involvement of NGOs in the CEDAW review process has been on-going since 1997. Click here for further information.
Source: Report of the Chairperson on Activities Undertaken between the 33rd and 34th Sessions of the Committee, presented at the 34th CEDAW Session, 16 January to 3 February 2006 .
