CEDAW/C/50/D/22/2009
Annex
Views of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women under article 7, paragraph 3, of the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women (fiftieth session)
concerning
Communication No. 22/2009 *
Submitted by:
T.P.F. (represented by the Centre for Reproductive
Rights and the Centre for the Promotion and Protection
of Sexual and Reproductive Rights)
Alleged victim:
L.C.
State party:
Peru
Date of communication:
18 June 2009 (initial submission)
References:
Transmitted to the State party on 20 July 2009 (not
issued in document form)
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 17 October 2011,
Adopts the following:
Views under article 7, paragraph 3, of the Optional Protocol
1.
The author of the communication, dated 18 June 2009, is T.P.F. She is submitting the
communication on behalf of her daughter, L.C., a Peruvian citizen born 2 April 1993. The
author claims that her daughter has been a victim of violation by Peru of articles 1, 2 (c) and
(f), 3, 5, 12 and 16 (e) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women. The author and her daughter are represented by the Centre for Reproductive
Rights and the Centre for the Promotion and Protection of Sexual and Reproductive Rights. 1
* The following members of the Committee participated in the adoption of the present communication:
1
2
Ms. Ayse Feride Acar, Ms. Magalys Arocha Domínguez, Ms. Violet Tsisiga Awori, Ms. Barbara
Evelyn Bailey, Ms. Olinda Bareiro Bobadilla, Ms. Meriem Belmihoub Zerdani, Mr. Niklas Bruun,
Ms. Naela Mohamed Gabr, Ms. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Ms. Yoko Hayashi, Ms. Ismat Jahan, Ms.
Soledad Murillo de la Vega, Ms. Violeta Neubauer, Ms. Silvia Pimentel, Ms. Maria Helena Lopes de
Jesus Pires, Ms. Victoria Popescu, Ms. Zohra Rasekh, Ms. Patricia Schulz, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović
and Ms. Zou Xiaoqiao.
The Committee received an amicus brief from the International Commission of Jurists on the access
to an effective remedy, as well as comments from the Health Equity and Law Clinic of the Faculty of
Law, University of Toronto, on the concept of multiple discrimination.