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THE UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES SPECIAL WEBSITE 

FOR THE 30^th ANNIVERSARY OF CEDAW

18^th December 2009 marks the 30^th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  A working group** of the United Nations’ Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) has come together to plan a number of activities in 2009 to celebrate this important anniversary, including a special anniversary website, which they invite you to visit: www.unifem.org/cedaw30.

 The website contains:

·         Examples of CEDAW’s successful implementation from around the world, which serve to illustrate how national partners and the global community can work together to ensure gender equality is a reality for all women and girls.

·         A calendar of regional and country level events being organized by the UN and its partners to celebrate the Convention’s 30th anniversary.

·         Information on the global anniversary celebration at UN headquarters in New York on 3rd December, 2009.

·         Electronically available publications and resources on CEDAW.

·         Background information on the Convention and its Optional Protocol.

·         A link to Inter Press Service’s special CEDAW website, which features articles on CEDAW’s implementation and interviews with CEDAW experts from around the world.

Please visit the site and share this announcement with your colleagues around the world. The working group encourages you to post a link to the CEDAW anniversary site on your organization’s website to help increase its visibility among your constituencies. The website will be updated every couple of weeks until the anniversary with new success stories so please keep checking back on the site for new information.  

For further information on the website, please contact jessica.hughes@unifem.org.