Submissions Welcomed for Alternate NGO CEDAW Report

The National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ) is facilitating the nationwide consultation process to produce the Alternate NGO CEDAW Report 2010.
New Zealand ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in January 1985. Every four years the New Zealand Government reports to the CEDAW Monitoring Committee and at the same time, NGOs are also encouraged to write the Alternate Report. This reporting process provides a way for New Zealand women to tell the government and the international community if and how they are discriminated against.

Contributing to the consultations on CEDAW is your opportunity as a group representative, or an individual woman, to oppose the barriers women and girls face in this country. Submissions can be written from the perspective of the individual or groups.

NCW is asking for feedback to be grouped in four separate modules that will be staggered during the next few months. The four modules are:
1. Social Focus
2. Measures of Wellbeing
3. Leadership and the Rural Perspective
4. Discrimination in the Law and Application of it

For information on a submission for Module One: Social Focus please visit http://ncwnz.org.nz/ngo-consultation-module-one/
The deadline for your submission for this module is 20th May 2010.

For information on a submission for Module Two: Measures of Wellbeing please visit http://ncwnz.org.nz/ngo-consultation-module/
The deadline for submission for this module is July 16 2010.

The previous Alternative NGO CEDAW 2007 Report is available in full online at: http://ncwnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/CEDAW-Alternative-Shadow-Report-2007.pdf