Introduction Considering rising atrocities and discrimination against women, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), after more than thirty years of work, prepared ‘The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).’ The CEDAW was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 18th December 1979, however, it came into force as an international treaty on 3rd September 1981. Today, around 189 countries have ratified CEDAW & 165 have ratified CEDAW-OP (Optional Protocol). The work of the CSW has been instrumental in bringing to light all the areas in which women have been denied equality with men. These efforts for the advancement of women have resulted in several declarations and conventions, of which the CEDAW is the central and most comprehensive document. The text of the CEDAW was prepared by working groups of CSW during 1976 and extensive deliberations by a working group of the Third Committee of the General Assembly from 1977 to 1979. The drafting of the CEDAW declaration was also encouraged by the implementation of the recommendations of the World Conference of the International Women’s Year held in Mexico City in 1975 by the World Action Plan. Therefore, the CEDAW document was adopted by the UNGA under resolution 34/180, to codify comprehensively international legal standards for women. The spirit of the CEDAW is rooted in the goals of the United Nations: to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity, and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women. The CEDAW spells out the meaning of equality and how it can be achieved. In doing so, the CEDAW establishes not 1 only an international bill of rights for women, but also an agenda for action by countries to guarantee the enjoyment of those rights. The Convention consists of a preamble and 30 articles. In its preamble, the CEDAW explicitly acknowledges that “extensive discrimination against women continues to exist”, and emphasizes that such discrimination “violates the principles of equality of rights and respect for human dignity”. In its approach, the Convention covers three dimensions of the situation of women. In addition, and unlike other human rights treaties, the CEDAW is also concerned with the dimension of human reproduction as well as with the impact of cultural factors on gender relations. At least every four years, the States Parties are expected to submit a national report to the Committee, indicating the measures they have adopted to give effect to the provisions of the CEDAW. During its annual session, the Committee members discuss these reports with the Government representatives and explore with them areas for further action by the specific country. India ratified CEDAW on 9th July, 1993 committing a national agenda for the State Parties to end discrimination against women in India. However, India has not yet ratified the Optional Protocol to CEDAW. The CEDAW Committee considered the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of India on 2nd July, 2014, during its 58th session. Objective of the Study The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is mandated under Section 12(f) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 “to