Shazia Choudhry: UK candidate for UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Professor Shazia Choudhry is the UK's candidate for the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for the term 2025 to 2028.
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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The CEDAW Committee consists of 23 experts on women’s rights from around the world.
Professor Choudhry is the UK’s candidate for CEDAW for the upcoming term. She is a Professor of Law and the Jeffrey Hackney Tutorial Fellow in Law at Wadham College, University of Oxford.
Professor Choudhry is dedicated to women’s rights and is a leading researcher on gender, human rights and violence against women. She is an experienced lawyer, and as a Professor of Law worked in the field of gender and human rights. Her research has had a global reach, covering Europe, Asia and South America to date and has been recognised internationally by invitations to present by the Supreme Courts of Mexico and Chile.
Voting will take place on 7 June 2024 for the 2025 to 2028 membership of CEDAW.
Last updated 15 May 2024 + show all updates
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