When will the CEDAW Committee refuse to accept the communication?

The communication will not be received by the CEDAW Committee if it is not consistent with art. 2, 3 and 4 of the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, in particular if:

▪     the communication is anonymous;

▪     there is no consent of the victim/victims of the alleged right’s violation on whose behalf the claim has been filed unless acting without such consent has been justified;

▪     not all remedies available at the national level have been used. The CEDAW Committee requires the victim/victims of the alleged violations to seek justice within the national legal system and exhaust all available domestic remedies before submitting a communication. The Committee may abandon this requirement if the application of the legal remedies is “unreasonably prolonged” or “unlikely to bring effective relief”;

▪     the communication is inadmissible under the art. 4.2 of the Optional Protocol to CEDAW.