CEDAW/C/59/D/59/2013
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 (fifty-ninth session)
concerning
Communication No. 59/2013 *
Submitted by:
Y. C. (represented by counsel, CityAdvokaterne)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Denmark
Date of communication:
16 January 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 24 October 2014,
Adopts the following:
Decision on admissibility
1.1 The author of the communication is Y.C., a Chinese national born in 1974. She
sought asylum in Denmark; her application was rejected and, at the time of
submission of the communication, she was awaiting deportation to China. She
claims that such deportation would constitute a violation by Denmark of her rights
under articles 1 to 3 and 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and the Committee’s general recommendation
No. 19. The author is represented by counsel, CityAdvokaterne. 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 case, the Committee, acting through the Working Group
on Communications under the Optional Protocol, decided not to accede to the
author’s request for interim measures of protection in accordance with article 5 (1)
of the Optional Protocol (i.e. to stay her deportation pending consideration of her
communication by the Committee).
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Ayse Feride Acar, Nicole Ameline, Olinda Bareiro-Bobadilla, Náela Gabr, Hilary
Gbedemah, Nahla Haidar, Yoko Hayashi, Ismat Jahan, Dalia Leinarte, Violeta Neubauer,
Theodora Oby Nwankwo, Maria Helena Lopes de Jesus Pires, Biancamaria Pomeranzi, Patricia
Schulz, Dubravka Ŝimonovič and Xiaoqiao Zou.
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