text: UNITED NATIONS CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against WomenDistr. GENERAL CEDAW/C/SR.155 29 January 1990 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN Ninth session SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 155th MEETING Held at Headquarters, New York, on Wednesday, 24 January 1990, at 10 a.m. Chairperson! Ms. EVATT CONTENTS Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be submitted in one of the working languages. They should be set forth in a memorandum and also incorporated in a copy of the record. They should be sent within one week of the date of this document to the Chief, Official Records Editing Section, Department of Conference Services, room DC2-750, 2 United Nations Plaza. Any corrections to the records of the meetings of this session will be consolidated in a single corrigendum, to be issued shortly after the end of the session. 90-55059 2302S (E) /.. The meeting was called to order at 10.10 a.m. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 18 OF THE CONVENTION (continued) Initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (CEDAW/C/5/Add.52 and Amends.1-4) 1. At the invitation of the Chairperson, Mrs. Denham (United Kingdom) took a place at the Committee table. 2. Mrs. DENHAM (United Kingdom) said that the United Kingdom had deposited its instrument of ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women on 7 April 1986 and had submitted its initial report in May 1987. Ratification had also been extended to four of the Territories for which the United Kingdom was internationally responsible - the Isle of Man, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Falkland Islands and
analysis: The text appears to be a summary record of a meeting of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, discussing the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland submitted under Article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The report is focused on the country's progress in eliminating discrimination against women, rather than a specific economic or environmental issue.