Voting by States parties is 28 June 2010 during the States parties Meeting.
The CEDAW Convention is the only UN human rights treaty that focuses specifically on gender issues. In this regard, it is important that the all twenty-three experts of the CEDAW Committee have an understanding of the realities of women's lives.
We urge you to get involved in the election process in order to ensure that candidates with feminist principles, a strong grounding in the issues and contexts related to women's lives, who will work towards the greater accountability of state parties to women's human rights and who recognise the role for civil society in the implementation of CEDAW are represented on the Committee.
2010 ELECTIONS:
As of March 9th the nomination list has closed. 24 States have nominated men and women to fill 11 vacancies in the Committee. Of the 11 members of the Committee whose terms are expiring in 2010, three are from Asia-Pacific, two are from Western Europe, two from Eastern Europe and four are from Africa. This will give you a rough idea as to the distribution of vacancies, and how, in this regard, more advocacy will be required in some regions.
On June 28, 2010 , official representatives of all the States parties to CEDAW will be electing 11 members of the Committee that will serve from January 2011 to December 2014.
The 24 nominees are: Ms. Ayse Feride ACAR (Turkey), Ms. Fadheela AL-MAHROOS (Bahrain), Mr. Ahmed AL MUKHAINI (Oman), Ms. Olinda BAREIRO-BOBADILLA (Paraguay), Ms. Joyce BAYANDE MBONGO ENDELEY (Cameroon), Ms. Meriem BELMIHOUB-ZERDANI (Algeria) Ms. Valentina BODRUG-LUNGU (Moldova), Ms. Dorcas COKER-APPIAH (Ghana) Ms. Mary Shanthi DAIRIAM, (Malaysia), Ms. Julia Lorena FRIES MONLEÓN (Chile), Ms. Naela Mohamed GABR (Egypt) ; Ms. Ruth HALPERIN-KADDARI (Israel) ,Ms. Yoko HAYASHI (Japan), Ms. Samith HOU (Cambodia) Ms. Rassolguessida Clémence ILBOUDO SAWADOGO (Burkina Faso), Ms. Grace KYOMUHENDO-BANTEBYA (Uganda), Ms. Violeta NEUBAUER (Slovenia) Ms. Pramila PATTEN (Mauritius) Ms. Maria Helena Lopes de Jesus PIRES (Timor-Leste) , Ms. Sapana PRADHAN-MALLA (Nepal) , Ms. Patricia SCHULZ (Switzerland), Ms. Dubravka ŠIMONOVIC (Croatia) , Ms. Amaryllis TORRES (Philippines) and Ms. Judit WIRTH (Hungary).
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