Patsilí Toledo is elected member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that today, in New York, Chilean lawyer and Doctor of Law Patsilí Toledo was elected member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), for the 2025-2028 term.
She is the first Chilean to be a member of this important body of independent experts, which oversees the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
The election - where Patsilí Toledo obtained 120 votes - took place at a meeting of the 189 States Parties, whose representatives voted by secret ballot to elect 11 of the 23 members of the committee, who will replace those experts whose terms expire on December 31st, 2024.
Members are elected for a four-year term and may be re-elected if they stand for re-election. On this occasion, countries from around the world nominated 21 candidates to the committee.
As Chile marks 35 years since it ratified the Convention, Patsilí Toledo's nomination is testimony to the country's commitment to gender equality and the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in Chile, in Latin America and globally.
The Chilean lawyer has dedicated herself to working for the prevention and eradication of violence against women, both academically and professionally, for more than 20 years. She was a drafter, for the Committee, of general recommendation 35 (2017), which provided clear guidance on how to strengthen the state response in terms of attention, prevention and reparation of gender-based violence.
As an expert in women's rights, Dr. Toledo had a relevant participation in the elaboration of the background paper on femicide review committees, submitted to the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2023). Additionally, she prepared the Global Review of Emerging Evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on criminal justice system responses to gender-based violence.
