The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was signed today by the Government of Bolivia. Its 30 articles cover measures to be taken by States Parties to eliminate discrimination in various fields including political and public life, the right to nationality, education, employment, health and marriage,and the family. Rights of rural women are given special attention, as are the elimination of stereotypes and the suppression of prostitution. The Secretary-General has been asked by the Assembly to present the text of the Convention to the 1980 World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women, to be held in Copenhagen from 14 to 30 July, for its information.
Sergio Palacios de Vizzio, Bolivia's Permanent Representative to the UN, signing the Convention at UN Headquarters as Erik Suy, UN Legal Counsel, and Martha Montenegro, First Secretary, Bolivian Mission, looks on.

Canada today ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Its 30 articles cover measures to be taken by States parties to eliminate discrimination in various fields including political and public life, the right to nationality, education, employment, health and marriage, and the family. Rights or rural Women are given special attention , as are the elimination of stereotypes and the suppression of prostitution.
United Nations Ambassador Gerard Pelletier of Canada (right) depositing the instrument of ratification with UN Legal Counsel Erik Suy.

Denmark today ratified the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Its 30 articles cover measures to be taken by States parties to eliminate discrimination in various fields including political and public life, the right to nationality, education, employment, health and marriage, and the family. Rights or rural Women are given special attention , as are the elimination of stereotypes and the suppression of prostitution.
Denmark's UN Ambassador Wilh. Ulrichsen (center) depositing the instrument of ratification with UN Legal Counsel Carl-August Fleischhauer as Counsellor Niels Kaas Dyrlund of Denmark's UN Mission looks on at left.

Wolsey Louis, Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs of Dominica, today signed at UN Headquarters the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 18 December 1979. At right is Erik Suy, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs.

Juan Carlos Delpree-Crespo, Alternate Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations, today presented to John F. Scott (right), Director, Office of the Legal Counsel, Guatemala's instrument of ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 18 December 1979.