Cedaw Committee facing individual communications: Admision requirementes and interim measures

Abstract

Before the CEDAW Committee considers a Complaint on its merits or substance, it must be clear that the formal requirements of admissibility are met. This paper deals with the way in which this Committee has analyzed those requirements during the last 15 years. We intend to determine the existence of consolidated lines of analysis of these requirements and evaluate them; or, where appropriate, the existence of hesitations or progressive interpretations. In the same way we will study the cases in which the CEDAW Committee has requested interim measures, in order to determine, if it is possible, the existence behavior patterns by this Organ when adopting them, and even by States when following them, trying to give reasons for this behavior.