CEDAW/C/62/D/56/2013
Annex
Decision of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women under the Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (sixty-second session)
concerning
Communication No. 56/2013 *
Submitted by:
M.C. (represented by counsel,
Helge Nørrung)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Denmark
Date of communication:
9 July 2013 (initial submission)
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ,
established under article 17 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women,
Meeting on 9 November 2015,
Adopts the following:
Decision on admissibility
1.1 The author of the communication is M.C., a Pakistani national born in 1945.
She sought asylum in Denmark; her application was rejected and, at the time of
submission of the communication, she was awaiting deportation from Denmark to
Pakistan. The author claims that her deportation to Pakistan would constitute a
violation by Denmark of her rights under articles 1, 2, 3, 5 and 16 of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
read in conjunction with the Committee’s general recommendation No. 19 (1992)
on violence against women. The author is represented by counsel, Helge Nørrung.
The Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto entered into force for the State
party on 21 May 1983 and 22 December 2000, respectively.
1.2 When registering the communication, the Committee’s Working Group on
Communications under the Optional Protocol decided not to accede to the author’s
request for interim measures of protection in order to stop her deportation pending
the examination of her case. On 10 September 2013, the State party informed the
Committee that the author had been returned to Pakistan on 13 July 2013.
* The following members of the Committee took part in the consideration of the present
communication: Ayse Feride Acar, Gladys Acosta Vargas, Bakhita Al -Dosari, Nicole Ameline,
Barbara Bailey, Niklas Bruun, Náela Gabr, Hilary Gbedemah, Nahla Haidar, Yoko Hayashi,
Lilian Hofmeister, Ismat Jahan, Lia Nadaraia, Theodora Nwankwo, Pramila Patten, Silvia
Pimentel, Biancamaria Pomeranzi, Patricia Schulz and Xiaoqiao Zou.
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