Women and Equalities written question – answered at on 27 February 2015.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent progress she has made on implementing the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the UK's record on women's rights and services.
The UK Government is firmly committed to delivering its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The UK’s seventh periodic report to the committee was submitted in 2012.
Following the UK’s CEDAW examination in July 2013 the committee made a number of observations and recommendations. The Government has been asked to respond to these in July 2017 in our 8th Periodic report. The Minister for Women and Equalities has written to her ministerial colleagues in relevant departments asking them to take forward the recommendations.
The committee asked the Government to respond to two of their recommendations before 2017 – they have sought a response to their recommendations on abortion in Northern Ireland and on legal aid and access to justice in November 2014 and 2015 respectively. The first of these responses was submitted in November 2014.
We are also currently working on extending CEDAW to the overseas territories of Anguilla, Bermuda, Gibraltar and the Cayman Islands.
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