COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN REVIEWS THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN EL SALVADOR (UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva)
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(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 17 February 2017 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of El Salvador on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Introducing the report, Carlos Castaneda Magaña, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Integration and Economic Development, said that El Salvador had adopted the special comprehensive law on the right of women to a life free of violence and the law on equality and eradication of violence against women, and it had strengthened the National Institute for Development...