Palestine & the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Implications of Ratification report review and the second being a drafting a list of questions related to the report. This list is communicated to the concerned States within a week from the date of the report review by the working group, and is done so in order for the States to respond within a course of (6) weeks. The third entails translating the list of questions and States’ replies to the official languages of the United Nations for publishing on the website of the Human Rights Commission. The reply of the States Parties is expected to be accurate and concise, ranging between 25-30 pages of font Times New Roman 12 with a space between every other line and be presented in an electronic copy. A definite number of additional pages of statistical data could be supplemented. The last part is the constructive dialogue or discussion of periodic reports, which is conducted according to the jurisdiction of the Committee under article (18) of the Convention. The Committee considers the report through a constructive dialogue with the representatives of the reporting State with a view to improving the concerned State’s achievement of the rights enshrined in the Convention. The Committee dedicates two open sessions for consideration of the initial report, and each session lasts three hours. The session starts with not more than (30) minutes of introductory comments by the State Party. Consideration of the initial report begins thereafter in line with each article of the Convention, save articles (15, 16, 8, 7, 2, 1). These articles are considered collectively whereby experts ask a set of questions to be answered by the State Party. The experts of the Committee can include any general comments in their questions concerning articles (1) and (2). The approach of considering initial reports also relates to integrating an initial report into one or more periodic reports. After a number of experts ask questions within the given framework, the State Party would be given the chance to reply. From there, a new round of questions and replies follows until there has been coverage of all the groups. Adapting National Legislation to the Provisions of the Convention The States ratifying the Convention are to review their effective laws and legislation to adapt them to the Convention and the principle of gender equality and non-discrimination. In the case of the State of Palestine, the domestic legal context is a major obstacle to adapting the national Palestinian laws and legislation to conform to the Convention, and this is 21