Women and gender issues

14 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/984

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF ARMENIA'S REPORT

19970714 Undertaking of Economic, Political, Legal Reforms Stressed by Delegation; Experts Emphasize Importance of Setting up Machinery for Advancement of Women

11 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/983

WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF REPORT BY LUXEMBOURG

19970711 Experts Emphasize Importance of Removing Reservations to Convention

11 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/982

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF NAMIBIA'S INITIAL REPORT

19970711 Experts Commend Government's Achievements within Seven Years of Independence

10 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/981

IMPACT OF DECLINE IN FERTILITY RATE ON IMPROVEMENT OF STATUS OF WOMEN AMONG ISSUES RAISED BY WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

19970710

Experts in the 23-member Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon noted the decline in fertility rate in Antigua and Barbuda, as they discussed the initial, second and third periodic reports of that country.

10 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/980

9 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/978

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS BY LUXEMBOURG

19970709 Director of Luxembourg's Ministry for Advancement of Women Proposes Convening of World Conference on 'Men and Power' to Promote Gender Equality

9 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/979

WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS OF LUXEMBOURG ON CONVENTION'S IMPLEMENTATION

19970709

Punishing women who underwent abortion was inappropriate, experts in the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women said this afternoon, as they commented on the initial and second periodic report of Luxembourg.

8 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/976

ENACTMENT OF MARRIED PERSONS EQUALITY ACT IN NAMIBIA PRAISED BY EXPERTS OF WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

19970708

The passage of the Married Persons Equality Act was a major development in the area of legal capacity in Namibia, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was told this morning by that country's Director- General of Women's Affairs in the Office of the President.

8 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/977

7 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/974

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS SEVENTEENTH SESSION

19970707

Five more countries had become parties to the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, bringing the total number of ratifications to 160, the monitoring body for the implementation of that Convention was told this morning as it opened its seventeenth session.