CEDAW 2010

CEDAW Report 2010 has been released

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. 

Click here to access the CEDAW Report 2010 - HTML

Click here to access the CEDAW Report 2010 - PDF

Media release www.beehive.govt.nz/portfolio/women's-affairs

Click here to see the Key Facts on the Status of women from the CEDAW Report 2010 

Here is a link to the CEDAW graphics illustrating key CEDAW statistics.

New Zealand’s seventh periodic report:

• covers the period from  March 2006 to March 2010
• sets out measures undertaken by government to improve the status of women during the reporting period. It includes updates on women’s representation in governance, employment opportunities, pay equity, prostitution, violence against women, and the needs of disabled women, Māori women, and refugee and migrant women
• responds to the recommendations made by the CEDAW Committee following New Zealand’s presentation of the sixth periodic report in 2007.

New Zealand is the first nation to report under new treaty reporting guidelines issued by the United Nations in 2009. The guidelines stipulate that the report cannot exceed 40 pages (excluding appendices), which has made it challenging to capture everything that has happened over the past four years. For more information on the guidelines, please go to www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/docs/AnnexI.pdf.

Ministry of Women's Affairs
PO Box 10049
Wellington 6143
Phone: 04 915 7112
Fax: 04 9161604
Email: mwa@mwa.govt.nz