President Mahama nominates Hilary Gbedemah for CEDAW

President John  Mahama has re-nominated  Hilary Amesika Gbedemah, a lawyer and gender consultant, to serve on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  

Ghana’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Mrs Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee made the announcement at the 60th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), in New York, in the US.   

Miss Gbedemah was first elected to CEDAW in 2013 for a two-year term.  

CEDAW monitors the implementation of national measures in eliminating discrimination against women. It is also empowered to make recommendations on any issue affecting women to which it believes the state should devote more attention to.   

CEDAW, adopted by the UN General Assembly in, 1979, is often described as an international Bill of Rights of Women. 

Miss Gbedemah thus brings to the job, more than 30 years experience in human rights, and a thorough knowledge of gender issues from the academic, policy and practical perspectives.  

Ms Gbedemah, in her first tenure, was appointed to serve on the Working Groups such as Access to Justice, which produced CEDAW's General Recommendation 33 on Access to Justice; the Right to Education; Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction; as well as Inquiries under the Optional Protocol.

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