“This is a huge acknowledgement of your personal and professional success, and of Lithuania’s involvement in addressing the issue of women’s rights. This achievement also raises the bar for us, obliges Lithuania to strengthen its efforts to end violence against women, their discrimination and inequality that is still experienced in various ways,” said the Minister Linkevičius.
Leinartė has been a member of the CEDAW Committee since 2013. She has been the Vice-Chairperson of the CEDAW Committee for the last two years. Following a successful election campaign that was run by Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic missions abroad, last autumn Leinartė was re-elected to the CEDAW Committee for the term 2017-2020. The Professor won a majority of votes cast and will serve two years. Since the establishment of the CEDAW Committee in 1981, the Professor is only the second Eastern European representative elected as President of the CEDAW Committee.
