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<p>The UK Government is firmly committed to delivering its obligations under the United
Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW). The UK’s <a href="http://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2fPPRiCAqhKb7yhsldCrOlUTvLRFDjh6%2fx1pWCZ2ExRBbyZjrlwi3Pzus9nuCu%2b8n7Fv%2bu26LKKyJw5U0xacLtmpcD%2fjNjdXq564yoWBdG73RfZ2Rpeb9R7BaJ5"
target="_blank">seventh periodic report</a> to the committee was submitted in 2012.</p><p>Following
the UK’s CEDAW examination in July 2013 the committee made a number of <a href="http://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2fPPRiCAqhKb7yhsldCrOlUTvLRFDjh6%2fx1pWB8bSlKfa34XmmIN3lG11hwWhjFqrEprJHQfoipZTwnVkhDALmzaR6gCklPapM2exTMh89SX7GUOJHbH%2bN8Qq9U"
target="_blank">observations and recommendations</a>. The Government has been asked
to respond to these in July 2017 in our 8th Periodic report. The Minister for Women
and Equalities has written to her ministerial colleagues in relevant departments asking
them to take forward the recommendations.</p><p>The committee asked the Government
to respond to two of their recommendations before 2017 – they have sought a response
to their recommendations on abortion in Northern Ireland and on legal aid and access
to justice in November 2014 and 2015 respectively. The <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CEDAW/Shared%20Documents/GBR/CEDAW_C_GBR_CO_7_Add-1_15053_E.pdf"
target="_blank">first of these responses</a> was submitted in November 2014.</p><p>
</p><p>We are also currently working on extending CEDAW to the overseas territories
of Anguilla, Bermuda, Gibraltar and the Cayman Islands.</p><p> </p><br /><p> </p>
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