Madrid, Feb 6 (EFE).- The Spanish Ana Peláez has been elected president of the UN Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), becoming the first Spanish woman in front of this body.
Peláez, who is blind and is executive vice president of the CERMI Women’s Foundation, has been part of CEDAW since 2019, where she has contributed to giving women and girls with disabilities visibility in the United Nations Human Rights system.
“It is an immense honor for me to be the new President of the United Nations CEDAW Committee, a position that I assume with humility, responsibility and commitment,” she assured on her Twitter profile.
The CEDAW committee is made up of 23 experts from around the world and is tasked with monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, signed in 1979.
Until now Ana Peláez was an expert of this Committee, at the proposal of Spain, for a first term of 4 years, which has been renewed for another identical period, in which she has been appointed president.