Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Abstract

1. On behalf of the Committee, the Secretariat invited the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on 5 May 1998, to submit to the Committee by 20 May 1998 a report on information provided by States to FAO on the implementation of article 14 and related articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which would supplement the information contained in the reports of those States parties to the Convention that will be considered at the nineteenth session. Annexed to the present note are country briefs prepared by FAO on Nigeria, Panama, Peru, the Republic of Korea and the United Republic of Tanzania.