REAL Women is an NGO with consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN. As such, we've attended over 35 UN meetings and we happen to know a great deal about CEDAW.
What happened is at Deep Cove, New York, in December 1996, it was decided by a group of feminists--one of them was from Canada, the University of Toronto--and the heads of the UN sections that they would use CEDAW and all the other reporting groups in order to interpret it according to a radical feminist agenda. And if anybody wants to dispute me, I have a copy of that document.
Since 1996 CEDAW has been promoting an agenda that is not accepted worldwide, and certainly is not accepted by many Canadian women. So anything CEDAW says is not to be taken seriously, because you know, they're reinterpreting all the seven human rights treaties according to their feminist agenda. I wouldn't pay attention to what CEDAW says.