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Procedural Decisions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Eighteenth Session, U.N. Doc. A/53/38/Rev.1 at 3 (1998).


 

 

Decisions of the Eighteenth Session : . 06/02/98.
A/53/38/Rev.1,pg.3. (Decision)

Convention Abbreviation: CEDAW
Decisions of the Eighteenth Session

Decision 18/I. Participation in the pre-session working group

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women decided that representatives of the specialized agencies and bodies of the United Nations, as well as national and international non-governmental organizations, should be invited to provide country-specific information to the pre-session working group on those States parties whose reports were before the group.


Decision 18/II. Specialized agencies and other United Nations bodies

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women decided that representatives of the specialized agencies and bodies of the United Nations should be invited to address the Committee as a whole in a closed meeting on those States parties whose initial reports were before the Committee.


Decision 18/III. Consideration of reports

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reaffirmed its past practice that members of the Committee should refrain from participating in any aspect of the consideration of the reports of the States of which they were nationals in order to maintain the highest standards of impartiality, both in substance and appearance.



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