As a member state of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), New Zealand is required to report every four years on the status of New Zealand women.  CEDAW sets out an agenda for countries to end discrimination against women and each report covers progress since the previous report.  For more information go to CEDAW.

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs would like to thank all those who provided comments and ideas over the years on the draft of all New Zealand’s CEDAW Reports to the United Nations on New Zealand's implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

View Ministry of Women's Affairs reports posted to the CEDAW website http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/reports.htm

 

 

Seventh Report

New Zealand’s four yearly report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is complete. Thank you to all of you who provided feedback.

www.mwa.govt.nz/our-work/international/cedaw-2010

 

Sixth Report

Friday 3 August 2007: Opening Statement: NZ Mission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women - Hon Lianne Dalziel Minister of Women's Affairs. This goes to an external site More

April 2007 Questions & Answers 6th CEDAW Response. The government's response to questions from the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women on New Zealand's Sixth CEDAW report.   PDF    HTML

February 2007 Ministry of Women's Affairs Chief Executive, Shenagh Gleisner, Statement to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 26 February 2007.

March 2006 The 6th CEDAW Report. The Status of Women in New Zealand 2006: The Sixth Report on New Zealand's Progress on Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. HTML and PDF

 

 

 

Fifth Report

 
CEDAW: Advance Unedited Version - 18 July 2003

Draft report - Consideration of reports of States parties

29th session 30 June - 18 July 2003

November 2002 The 5th CEDAW Report. The Status of Women in New Zealand 2002: The Fifth Report on New Zealand's Progress on Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.    PDF [1.76MB]   Word [1.04MB]

CEDAW Committee's concluding observations on New Zealand's Fifth CEDAW Report (advance and unedited version).  PDF

[35KB]

 

Other CEDAW Reports

We only have hard copies or PDF versions of earlier CEDAW Reports

• Third & Fourth CEDAW Report 1998 [42MB] (combined)
• Second CEDAW Report 1992
• First CEDAW Report 1986

 

For a hard copy, email mwa@mwa.govt.nz

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Contact for any enquiries regarding the report:
Ministry of Women's Affairs
Tel: 04 915 7112
mwa@mwa.govt.nz