In her talk, Ms Genoveva Tisheva will share her personal experience working with the UN to protect the human rights of women, which she gained in her capacity as a sitting member and Vice-Chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Genoveva Tisheva first became a member of CEDAW in 2019 and was re-elected in 2022. The CEDAW is the UN body of independent experts that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Adopted by the UN in 1979, CEDAW is the most important human rights treaty for women. The Committee consists of 23 independent experts on women’s rights from around the world.
Genoveva Tisheva is Director of the Women’s Human Rights Training Institute, Chair of the Alliance for Protection from Gender-Based Violence (Bulgaria) and Managing Director of the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (ECOSOC Consultative status). She is a member of the Expert Group to the National Anti-Trafficking Commission and an associate member of the Advisory Council on Equality between Women and Men, both of the Bulgarian government.
Genoveva Tisheva is an internationally recognised women’s rights expert with extensive experience in women’s rights advocacy and legislative reform. She was actively involved in the drafting of the Bulgarian Protection Against Domestic Violence Act, other legislation on equality and violence against women, and amendments to the Bulgarian Penal Code related to gender-based violence. Ms Tisheva is Vice-President of the European Women Lawyers’ Association and a recipient of the 2017 Special Recognition Human Rights Defender Award of the Advocates for Human Rights (Minnesota, USA).
