Submitted by: Foreign Affairs Permanent Working Party 

The National Council of Women: concerned that many women living in countries under fundamentalist regimes suffer intensely from the results of legislation which deprives them of their human rights, aware that flagrant violations of many United Nations international treaties, including the denial of their civil and political rights, their economic, social and cultural rights, freedom of movement, the right to work, access to education and employment and health care, and considering that much of the treatment imposed upon them is contrary to the Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), urges Her Majesty’s Government to work within the framework of the United Nations and other appropriate organisations to secure international cooperation to protect the human rights of women.