COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN OPENS ITS SIXTY-EIGHTH SESSION IN GENEVA
(WorldNews Switzerland)

23 October 2017 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its sixty-eighth session, hearing a statement by Carla Edelenbos, Chief of the Petitions and Inquiries Section, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme of work for the session. Aruna Devi Narain from Mauritius made her solemn declaration as a newly appointed Committee Member. Ms. Narain replaced Pramila Patten following her appointment as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on sexual violence in conflict earlier this year. Ms. Edelenbos, in her opening remarks, welcomed new Committee...