The international human rights framework has promoted and implemented human rights standards and norms to eradicate discrimination against women and to guarantee women’s fundamental rights. This session will focus on the mechanisms aimed at eliminating discrimination namely the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the UN Committee that is responsible for the conventions interpretation and implementation. The session will look at instances where discrimination and human rights violations against women continue. The panel will aim to analyse and assess the impact to date that such convention and legislation has had on women’s rights worldwide and examine the fundamental question and consider what challenges and obstacles the international human rights framework now faces in securing women’s rights at the international and domestic level.