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Costa Rica is a small country but with big commitments, and one of those is regarding safeguarding the rights of women to live free of discrimination in society.
As a country that has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Costa Rica comes under regular review by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) which is charged with reviewing and enforcing commitments to the convention’s principles.
This week, CEDAW announced it will be reviewing the women’s rights situation in Costa Rica along with Barbados, Italy, Montenegro, Niger, Nigeria, Romania and Thailand at its meeting in Geneva July 3 – 21.
The UN committee, composed of 23 international independent experts, will specifically analyze how these countries are implementing the convention through dialogues with delegations from the respective governments, and will also be briefed by nongovernmental agencies and national human rights institutions from each country on the situation of women.
The committee’s dialogues with the delegations will take place on weekdays for the duration of the meeting from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 – 5 p.m. in Geneva, and will be webcast at http://webtv.un.org/.
CEDAW’s findings on the countries reviewed will be published on 24 July here.
A news conference to discuss the findings is scheduled for 12.30 on 24 July at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
CEDAW’s expect panel serve in a personal capacity and not as representatives of any state. The committee’s concluding observations are an independent assessment of states’ compliance with their human rights obligations under the treaty, said the UN.
