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UN approves new protocol for women.
The General Assembly of the United Nations approved the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on October 6, 1999. The Optional Protocol is a new complaint mechanism that will permit women from the countries that are signatories to CEDAW and signatories to the Protocol to make complaints to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (the CEDAW Committee) when domestic remedies have been exhausted.
Now the Protocol is open for signature and ratification by member States. The Protocol will come into force three months after 10 governments ratify the protocol. Next on the agenda, according to human rights expert Shelagh ...
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