WomanStats

Countries: Niger
Variables: ATC-DATA-2

"Reservations to Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) have still not been lifted, and successive governments do not appear to have made it their priority" (1).

2019 Iraq Shadow CEDAW - Global Justice Center

Jan. 24, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

Countries: Iraq
Variables: ATC-DATA-2

"Problematically, Iraq has reserved to CEDAW’s Article 2(f) and (g)" (2).

2020 Peru Shadow CEDAW

Jan. 16, 2025, 9:45 p.m.

Countries: Peru
Variables: ATC-DATA-2

"The Peruvian State signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1982, from that historical milestone progress has been made in relation to women's rights" (4).

CEDAW Maldives 2019

July 10, 2023, 9:26 p.m.

Countries: Maldives
Variables: ATC-DATA-2

"The Maldives ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1993 with reservations against Articles 7 and 16. In March 2006, Maldives ratified the Optional Protocol (OP) to the CEDAW. With the adoption of the new Constitution in 2008, women were granted the right to run for the office of the Presidency, resulting in the lifting of the Government’s reservation against CEDAW Article 7." (4). "In 2017, the Government of Maldives provided Follow Up information to the Committee on measures taken to address the Concluding Observations (COs) received in 2015 following the fourth and fifth periodic report specific to the removal of the...more

2021 Egypt CO

March 31, 2023, 2:31 p.m.

Countries: Egypt
Variables: ATC-DATA-2

"[T]he State party maintains reservations to articles 2 and 16 of the Convention" (3).

China 2013 CEDAW

June 7, 2022, 10:47 a.m.

Countries: China
Variables: ATC-DATA-2, ATC-DATA-3

"The Chinese Government wishes to reiterate its continued reservation to article 29, paragraph 1, of the Convention" (6).

2015 Switzerland CEDAW

May 30, 2022, 9:08 p.m.

Countries: Switzerland
Variables: ATC-DATA-2, ATC-DATA-3

"Switzerland had entered a reservation regarding CEDAW article 16(2)(g), since Swiss legislation was not in accordance with the principle of equal rights in the choice of family name contained in that provision of the Convention. The relevant provisions of the Swiss Civil Code were changed under an amendment that entered into force in 2013, thus enabling the Federal Council to notify the withdrawal of its reservation on 20 September 2013. The new provisions concretize spouses’ equality in naming and in cantonal and communal rights of citizenship. In principle, marriage no longer has any effect of spouses’ names or rights of citizenship. Each spouse keeps his or her name and citizenship...more

UNTC Treaty Database

May 11, 2021, 1:14 p.m.

Countries: Trinidad/Tobago
Variables: ATC-DATA-2

"Reservation made upon signature and confirmed upon ratification: 'The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago declares that it does not consider itself bound by article 29 (1) of the said Convention, relating to the settlement of disputes'".

UNTC Treaty Database

May 11, 2021, 1:11 p.m.

Countries: Malawi
Variables: ATC-DATA-2

"On 24 October 1991, the Government of Malawi notified the Secretary-General of its decision to withdraw the following reservations made upon accession: 'Owing to the deep-rooted nature of some traditional customs and practices of Malawians, the Government of the Republic of Malawi shall not, for the time being, consider itself bound by such of the provisions of the Convention as require immediate eradication of such traditional customs and practices. While the Government of the Republic of Malawi accepts the principles of article 29, paragraph 2 of the Convention this acceptance should nonetheless be read in conjunction with [its] declaration of 12th December 1966, concerning the recognition, by the Government of...more