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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is a treaty for all girls and women in this world. After 30 years, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is still valid and necessary both in developed and in developing States. This image is clearly conveyed by the authors of this book who represent a wide variety of national and cultural backgrounds, and who have put the implementation of the provisions in the Convention to the test both in modern and in traditional societies.

While reading law at the Open University of the Netherlands, Ingrid Westendorp has worked as the coordinator of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht. After she graduated in 1998, she was appointed lecturer in law with the International and European Law Department. In 2007 she finished her PhD thesis on the right to housing for women.