Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 6th October 1999 (2131 UNTS 83)

This headnote concerns the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (‘Protocol’), which was adopted on 6 October 1999 and entered into force on 22 December 2000. The Protocol extends the competences of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (‘Committee’), providing for a system of individual communications and for an inquiry procedure concerning grave or systematic violations of the rights enshrined in Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (‘CEDAW’).