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GENEVA (23 February 2015)  – Kyrgyzstan’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Wednesday 25 February in meetings that will be webcast live.

Kyrgyzstan is one of the 188 States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and so is required to submit regular reports to the Committee of 23 independent experts on how it is implementing the Convention.

The Committee will engage in a dialogue with the delegation from the Kyrgyz Government on questions relating to the promotion and protection of women’s rights in the country. This will take place in Conference Room XVI at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 10:00 - 17:00 (15:00 - 22:00 in Bishkek).  The live webcast can be viewed at http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/.  

 

Among the possible issues to be discussed are: measures to promote more representation of women at the decision-making level;  number of shelters for victims of domestic violence;  training for officials on causes and consequences of domestic violence; data on patterns and dynamics of trafficking in women;  education dropout rates among girls in rural areas; equal pay;  declining but still worryingly high level of maternal mortality; decline in use of contraceptives;  measures to tackle prevalence of bride kidnapping.

Kyrgyzstan’s written report and more information can be found here:

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=901&Lang=en.

CEDAW’S concluding observations on Kyrgyzstan and the other States being reviewed - Gabon,  Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Tuvalu, Denmark, Eritrea, and Maldives  - will be published on 6 March here:  

For more information and media requests, please contact Liz Throssell (+41 (0) 22 917 9466/ethrossell@ohchr.org