BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 26. In New York, during
the 24th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Azerbaijan's candidate, Elgun Safarov, was elected as a member of
the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW) for the 2027–2030 term, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry
said.
According to the statement, candidates from 20 countries
competed for 12 vacant seats on the Committee. Elgun Safarov, a
representative of Azerbaijan's State Committee for Family, Women
and Children's Affairs, was elected to the Committee in the very
first round of voting.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women, established under the 1979 Convention, is the principal body
responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Convention. It
consists of 23 independent experts elected at the global level, who
review how States Parties fulfill their obligations under the
Convention.
It should be recalled that, in addition to the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), over the past
two weeks Azerbaijani representatives have also been elected to the
Human Rights Committee (ICCPR) and the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC), achieving the country's best-ever result in
elections to the UN human rights treaty bodies.
Furthermore, following the results of previous elections,
Azerbaijan is already represented on the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and the Committee on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families (CMW).
As a result, Azerbaijani representatives will serve on five of
the ten existing UN human rights treaty bodies. In terms of
representation in these bodies, Azerbaijan shares second and third
place among all UN member states with the People's Republic of
China, providing further evidence of the country's growing
international standing and the high level of confidence it enjoys
within the international community.
