Government ‘has failed to meet women’s rights pledges’

Caroline O’Doherty

The issue was one of many highlighted by a group of Irish women invited to make presentations before a committee from the UN Division for the Advancement of Women at UN headquarters in New York.

The committee is inquiring into the progress made by signatories to the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which Ireland signed up to 20 years ago.