UN experts are preparing the meeting of the committee to be held at UN headquarters Jan 16-Feb 3, specializing in eliminating discrimination against women. In this meeting, the 23-member body, which sessions twice each year, will review the situation in six countries to see if they observe the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Adopted by the General Assembly in 1979, CEDAW is seen as a sort of international law on the rights of women, defining what constitutes discrimination and establishing an agenda aimed at wiping it out in every country, according to Presna Latina.