KATHMANDU, JAN 11 - An eight-member team is leaving for the 30th CEDAW session in New York today. The team comprising of activists from a number of non-governmental organisations, also CEDAW Monitoring Committee (CMC), is to raise issues concerning the low status of women in the country.
Recently the members at a discussion session had produced a priority list of issues to be raised in New York. Legal provisions for women, women’s status in socio-economic context and emerging issues like single women, indigenous and Dalit women will be raised at the session.The CMC has also produced a shadow report on second and third periodic CEDAW report prepared by the government, which has been submitted to the CEDAW committee at the UN.
"The shadow report compliments the government’s report, however our report is important as we have raised some issues on which the government has remained silent," said Sapana Pradhan Malla, co-ordinator of the CMC."We will be lobbying to change the centralised and non-participatory kind of development in the country before the 21st century surpasses us," said Dr. Chandra Bhadra, assistant-professor of Women’s Studies at the Tribhuwan University.

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