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OFFICIAL RECORDS

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Official records of the Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Fifty-Second Session, Fifty-Third Session, and Fifty-Fourth Session.

Since its adoption by the UN General Assembly in 1979, this "women's bill of rights" has become a key element in international human rights law. This optional protocol contains two procedures. Firstly, a communications procedure allowing individual women, or groups of women, to submit claims of violation of rights to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women., providing domestic remedies have been exhausted. The protocol also allows the Committee to initiate inquiries into situations of serious or systematic violation of women's rights.