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2009 and it will be considered by the Committee sometime in 2010
or 2011.
Additional monitoring mechanisms in the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
In December 1999, the General Assembly adopted an Optional
Protocol which allows States to choose to permit the CEDAW
Committee in Geneva to consider complaints from individuals who
claim their rights have been violated. The Committee can only
receive such complaints from countries that have opted to ratify the
Protocol and even then can only consider complaints when certain
criteria have been met: in particular, a case can only be heard
where the individual has exhausted all available domestic
remedies. The Optional Protocol also allows the CEDAW
Committee to undertake inquiries when there is evidence of
systematic gross violations of the provisions of the Convention.
In August 2009, following a recommendation from the CEDAW
Committee, the National Assembly adopted a national law to ratify
the Optional Protocol. Once the international legal procedures have
been completed to give the ratification legal effect in international
law, women in Cambodia will be able to submit individual
complaints to the Geneva Committee if they believe that they have
been a victim of discrimination in violation of the Convention.
OHCHR Cambodia, January 2010
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