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Ana Pel\u00e1ez Narv\u00e1ez from Spain, Vice-President of the European Disability Forum (EDF) and blind from birth, was elected to the U.N. Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) becoming the first women with a disability to be appointed to this position in the Committee\u2019s 37-year history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt is an immense honor for me to be the new President of the CEDAW Committee of @UN , a position that I assume with humility, responsibility and commitment,\u201d posted Pelaez, adding, \u201cMy thanks to WEOG and all the experts of the CEDAW Committee for their trust and support.\u201c Read here post here: X Profile of Ana Pelaez<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ana Pel\u00e1ez Narv\u00e1ez, executive vice president of the Cermi Woman Foundation and High Commissioner for Solidarity and International Cooperation of the ONCE Social Group and vice president of the ONCE Foundation for Latin America (FOAL), was elected this February president of the UN Committee for the Cedaw Committee and became the first Spaniard to access this relevant international responsibility.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Spanish representative, born with minimal vision that she soon lost, managed to gather broad support from all the signatory countries of said committee of which she has been a member since February 2019, being the first woman with a disability to be part of this treaty body.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ana Pel\u00e1ez Narv\u00e1ez from Spain, Vice-President of the European Disability Forum (EDF) and blind from birth, was elected to the U.N. Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) becoming the first women with a disability to be appointed to this position in the Committee\u2019s 37-year history. \u201cIt is an immense honor for me… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbuarchived.mydev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}