Equality and Human Rights Commission

Submissions to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 

The UK Government was invited to present its fifth periodic report (of 2003) and its sixth periodic report (of 2007) at the 41st session of CEDAW on 10 July 2008.

The Commission submitted its parallel report to the Committee in June 2008. Our submission focused on:

• The Optional Protocol
• The Gender Equality Duty on the Public Sector
• Violence against Women
• Employment and Reconciliation of Work and Family Life
• Education and Stereotypes, and
• Women’s Health

Download a copy of the submission: 

• Our submission on the Sixth Periodic Report of the United Kingdom to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (Word)

More information

• Find out more about the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and read previous country reports to the committee
• Read the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women