NWCI Submission to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform In preparation for its 6th Rep

Published: Monday, December 31, 2007

We welcome this important opportunity for women's groups and organisations working on women's equality to feed into the government's 6th report to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), and to ensure that our concerns are included. CEDAW is of great importance internationally in promoting women's rights and linking with other human rights covenants, particularly those concerning economic, social and cultural rights.

In the CEDAW Committee Concluding Comments and Recommendations July 2005 the Committee expressed the view that the concerns and recommendations identified required Ireland's priority attention by the submission of the next periodic report. Consequently, the Committee called on the government to "focus on those areas in its implementation activities and, in its next periodic report, to report on action taken and results achieved". In addition, the Committee called on the government to "submit the present concluding comments to all relevant ministries and to the Oireachtas so as to ensure their full implementation."

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