CEDAW/C/61/D/24/2009 Annex Views of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women under article 7 (3) of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (sixty-first session) concerning Communication No. 24/2009* Submitted by: X and Y (represented by counsel) Alleged victims: The authors State party: Georgia Date of communication: 24 June 2009 (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 13 July 2015, Adopts the following: Views under article 7 (3) of the Optional Protocol 1. The authors of the communication are Georgian nationals: X, born in 1961, and her daughter, Y, born in 1990. They claim to be victims of a violation by Georgia of their rights under articles 1, 2 (b)-2 (f) and 5 (a) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. They are represented by counsel. 1 The Optional Protocol entered into force for Georgia on 1 August 2002. Factual background 2.1 X married a Georgian man in 1987 after being raped by him in July 1987 following a student party; she had been a virgin. According to her, Georgian society perceives virginity as a young woman’s virtue that is a guarantee of a successful marriage. X therefore married him because she believed that nobody else would wish to marry her. Within the marriage, she gave birth to five children, in 1988, 1989, 1990, __________________ * 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, Malays Arocha Dominguez, Barbara Bailey, Niklas Bruun, Louiza Chalal, Náela Gabr, Hilary Gbedemah, Nahla Haidar, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Yoko Hayashi, Lilian Hofmeister, Ismat Jahan, Dalia Leinarte, Pramila Patten, Silvia Pimentel, Biancamaria Pomeranzi, Patricia Schulz and Xiaoqiao Zou. 1 The case was submitted by Elena Fileeva (a Georgian attorney) and the non -governmental organization “Interights” (London); subsequently, the authors were represented by the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (Middlesex University, London). 2/19 15-14358

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