CEDAW/C/51/D/25/2010
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
concerning
Communication No. 25/2010,* M.P.M. v. Canada
Submitted by:
M.P.M., represented by counsel, Mr. Stewart
Istvanffy
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Canada
Date of communication:
25 March 2010 (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 February 2012,
Adopts the following:
Decision on admissibility
1.1
The author of the communication, dated 25 March 2010, is M.P.M., born on 26
December 1964 in Córdoba, Mexico. She argues that by returning her to her country of
origin without having considered fairly the risks she faced as a woman, Canada has violated
articles 2 (c) and (d), 3, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women. She is represented by counsel, Mr. Stewart Istvanffy. The
Convention and its Optional Protocol entered into force for the State party on 10 December
1981 and 18 October 2002 respectively.
1.2
At its forty-ninth session, the Committee decided, at the State party’s request, to
consider the admissibility separately from the merits.
The facts as submitted by the author
2.1
The author alleges that she was abused in her country of origin, Mexico, by her
former spouse, a judicial police officer. She was in a relationship with him from 1998 to
* The following members of the Committee participated in the adoption of the present communication:
Ms. Ayse Feride Acar, Ms. Magalys Arocha Domínguez, Ms. Violet Tsisiga Awori, Ms. Barbara
Evelyn Bailey, Ms. Olinda Bareiro Bobadilla, Mr. Niklas Bruun, Ms. Naela Mohamed Gabr, Ms.
Ismat Jahan, Ms. Soledad Murillo de la Vega, Ms. Violeta Neubauer, Ms. Pramila Patten, Ms. Silvia
Pimentel, Ms. Victoria Popescu, Ms. Zohra Rasekh, Ms. Patricia Schulz, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović
and Ms. Zou Xiaoqiao.
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