Women and gender issues

14 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1134

CUSTOMS IMPEDE WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES IN BELIZE, DESPITE LEGAL PROTECTION, WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

19990614

Belize Presents Initial and Second Periodic Reports; Committee Questions Role of Church, High Rates of HIV/AIDS

11 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1133

RETURNING REFUGEES AND ERADICATING POVERTY IN RURAL AREAS PARTS OF GEORGIA'S 1998-2000 ACTION PLAN FOR WOMEN, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

19990611 Committee Concludes Consideration of Georgia's Report on Compliance With Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

10 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1131

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF UNITED KINGDOM REPORT

19990610

The structural elements for implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in the United Kingdom were largely in place, but cultural and social obstacles remained, a representative of that country told the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning.

10 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1132

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF UNITED KINGDOM REPORTS

19990610 High Level of Teenage Conception, Participation of Men in Family Planning Discussed; United Kingdom Delegation Responds to Experts' Questions

9 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1130

CLEAR INFORMATION ON IMPACT OF PRIVATIZING HEALTH CARE IN GEORGIA ON WOMEN'S GENERAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CALLED FOR IN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

19990609 Committee Continues Consideration of Georgia's Report on Compliance With Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

9 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1129

GEORGIA'S EFFORTS TO ADVANCE WOMEN'S STATUS AFFECTED BY CONFLICT, ECONOMICS, COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TOLD

19990609 Georgia's Representative Introduces Initial Report; Experts Raise Questions on Use of Quotas, 'Cult' of the Mother

8 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1128

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN ADOPTS AGENDA, WORK PROGRAMME FOR CURRENT SESSION

19990608

Committee Chairperson Reports on Inter-sessional Activities; Minister for Insurance and Social Affairs of Egypt Addresses Committee

7 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1126

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS TWENTY-FIRST SESSION

19990607 Day-long Celebration Held To Commemorate Twentieth Anniversary of Women's Anti-Discrimination Convention

4 June 1999

Press Release
WOM/1125

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TO HOLD TWENTY-FIRST SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

19990604 Background Release

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the only United Nations human rights treaty-monitoring body concerned exclusively with women, will convene the second of its two annual sessions at Headquarters from 7 to 25 June.

1 April 1999

Press Release
WOM/1124

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN CONCLUDES FORTY-THIRD SESSION

19990401 Agreed Conclusions on Women and Health, Institutional Mechanisms, Resolutions on Women and Girls in Afghanistan, Women and Mental Health Adopted