Cedaw

South Africa is a signatory of the International Instruments such as Cedaw, African Union Charter on Women and SADC Declaration to commit towards Education and training of women that included women given strategic attention as a target to address the inequality on skills and education.

August 2006 2006

"Iran and the US are two of only eight countries that have not joined the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw)." (thanks May)

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 As'ad 2007

Although this conference takes place 10 years after the adoption of the historic Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 26 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw) and the five years after the World Conference Against Racism, Racial

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw), adopted by the United Nations in 1979.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw), adopted by the United Nations in 1979.

Address on the occasion of the thanksgiving service and women's commemorative march to the Union Buildings 2004

"It is our greatest conviction that it is of vital importance to adhere to the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw) to empower and protect women."

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

While Stofile accepted the principles of Cedaw, he said that in the South African context women were also affected by race and class discrimination.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Elimination of Discrimination of Women (Cedaw) to which South

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

South Africa's first report on Cedaw which had to be submitted to the UN in October.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

According to national assembly speaker Frene Ginwala a parliamentary standing committee on Cedaw is to be established.

Searching for a women's movement 1995