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GENEVA, 10 February 2014 (UN News Service): The United Nations committee mandated to ensure compliance with the global treaty to end all forms of discrimination against women opened a new session Monday with a call for gender equality to be fully integrated into the post-2015 agenda.
“We believe there should be a stand-alone goal or goals on equality and non-discrimination that addresses all kinds of discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of sex,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said.
She spoke at the opening of the 57th Session of Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) being held in Geneva until 28 February.
The UN is currently formulating a new post-2015 agenda to chart the course of global development for decades to come, expanding on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs =2015 Målene) adopted at a UN summit in 2000.
They aim to slash extreme hunger and poverty, cut maternal and infant mortality (mødre- og spædbørnsdødelighed), combat disease and provide access to universal education and health care, all by the end of 2015.
Ms. Pillay called for the overall strengthening of treaty bodies to meet the triple challenge of a significant backlog, chronic under-resourcing and insufficient compliance with reporting obligations.
“If no prompt action is taken to rectify these problems, the treaty body system is threatened with collapse,” she warned.
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