Report of the Joint Monitoring Committee on Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of Women on the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, dated 8 March 2005:

The Joint Monitoring Committee on Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of Women, having considered the request for approval by Parliament of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, referred to it, recommends that the House and the Council, in terms of section 231(2) of the Constitution, approve the said Protocol.

Request and report to be considered.