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"UN: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979" [2005] ELECD 241; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 18

Section Title: UN: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

18. UN: Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women,
1979

Commentary: CEDAW (UN Doc A/34/46, entry into force 1981) is adminis-
tered by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women which
assesses national reports. An Optional Protocol (UN Doc A/54/49 (2000), entry
into force 2000) provides for it to consider communications by individuals or
groups of individuals alleging violations by State Parties. See further,
www.ohchr.org. See also, Convention on the Political Rights of Women 193 UNTS
135 (entry into force 1954); UNGA Resolution 3318 (1974) concerning the
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed
Conflict; UNGA Resolution 48/104 (1993) concerning the Declaration on the
Elimination of Violence against Women; UNCTC/ILO (1985), `Women Workers in
MNEs in Developing Countries', Geneva.




Article 1
For the purposes of the present Convention, the term `discrimination against women' shall
mean any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect
or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women,
irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human
rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any
other field.


Article 2
States Parties condemn discrimination against women in all its forms, agree to pursue by all
appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating discrimination against women
and, to this end, undertake:

(b) To adopt ...