NEWS

8 January 2007

KAZAKHSTAN TO REPORT ON DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

Kazakhstan to make report on report on realization of the Convention on liquidation of all forms of discrimination against women in the UN headquarters in New York on January 15-17, Kazakh MFA’s spokesperson Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a weekly briefing today.

Kazakhstan, where women make 52% of the population, joined the UN Convention in 1998. According to the document, the member-states have to report to the UN on the legal, judicial and administrative measures taken in terms of the Convention.

D. Yermaganbetova

Source: KAZINFORM