Meet the Candidates for the 2024 CEDAW Election

Ahead of every election to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), IWRAW Asia Pacific, as part of the NGO Network on UN Treaty Bodies (TB-Net), works with candidates to visibilise their skills, experiences and expertise to member States and other stakeholders who play a key role in the voting process. This joint initiative with TB-Net requests candidates to respond to a questionnaire which gives them the opportunity to share about their work on gender equality, experience with CEDAW, and analyses of current and emerging issues in the present climate for women’s human rights.

On this page you will find:

IWRAW Asia Pacific thanks the candidates who dedicated their time and effort to this initiative.

View the list of Committee members elected on 7 June 2024.

Ms Jelena Pia-Comella (Andorra)
Curriculum vitae – English | français | español [PDF]
Questionnaire [Word]

Ms Natasha Stott Despoja (Australia)
Curriculum vitae: العربية | 中文 | English | français | español | português [Word]
Questionnaire [Word]

Ms Violet Eudine Barriteau (Barbados)

Curriculum vitae: English [Word]
Questionnaire [Word]
Accomplishments and vision for gender equality and gender justice [Word]
Script for video [Word]

Ms Donatienne Girukwishaka (Burundi)

Curriculum vitae – français [Word]
Questionnaire – français [Word]

Ms Thérèse N. Malongue-Atangana Amougou (Cameroon)

Curriculum vitae: français [Word]
Questionnaire – English | français [Word]

Ms Patsilí Toledo Vásquez (Chile)

Curriculum vitae: English | français | español [Word]
Read the video transcript in English and Spanish [Word]
Questionnaire [Word]

Ms Mu Hong (China)
Curriculum vitae: 中文 | English [Word]

Ms Lia Nadaraia (Georgia)
Curriculum vitae: English [PDF]

Ms Madina Jarbussynova (Kazakhstan)
Curriculum vitae: English [Word]
Questionnaire [PDF]

Ms Nahla Haidar El Addal (Lebanon)
Curriculum vitae: العربية / English [PDF]

Ms Angela Melo (Mozambique)
Curriculum vitae: English [PDF]
Questionnaire: English [Word]

Ms Bandana Rana (Nepal)
Curriculum vitae: English [PDF]

Ms Corinne Detmeijer-Vermeulen (the Netherlands)
Curriculum vitae: English [PDF]

Ms Neda Chalovska Dimovska (North Macedonia)

Curriculum vitae: English [Word]
Questionnaire [Word]

Ms Hamida Sloum Al-Shukairi (Oman)
Curriculum vitae: English | العربية [PDF]

Ms Erika Schläppi (Switzerland)
Curriculum vitae: English | français | español [Word]
Questionnaire [Word]

Ms Abide Kpemsi épse Kombate (Togo)

Curriculum vitae: français [Word]
Questionnaire [Word]

Ms Shazia Choudhry (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Curriculum vitae: English [Word]

Ms Diana González Perrett (Uruguay)

Curriculum vitae: English | español
Questionnaire [PDF]

Ms Eunice Njovana (Zimbabwe)
Curriculum vitae: English [PDF]