Who can submit the communication?

• Individuals and groups of individuals that claim to be victims of the violation of any right protected by the CEDAW Convention by the State which is a Party to the Optional Protocol to CEDAW (the State that ratified/acceded the Optional Protocol). 
  
  This includes groups of individuals, named or not identified by name, whose rights have been breached, as well as groups that have suffered the violations as a group (for example the organizations prohibited by the state from protecting women’s rights). 
  
  The victim/victims of the alleged violations do not have to be citizens or residents of the State Party but should have been under its jurisdiction at the time the facts occurred. It is also not necessary for the victims to stay within the territory of the State Party when the facts occurred if the violation happened under the State’s jurisdiction. For example the violation might affect a woman who is its State’s citizen but lives abroad.

• Other authors of the communications acting on behalf of a victim/victims of the alleged violations and with their consent unless they can justify acting on their behalf without such consent. The representatives of the victims do not have to be under the jurisdiction of the State Party.