Uzbekistan launches website on gender statistics

The website provides information on gender statistics and main figures in this direction in Uzbekistan. In particular, the site has information on such directions as demography, healthcare, crime, etc.

Data collection on gender statistics in Uzbekistan is carried out from a number of sources. In addition to the administrative reports with data breaking by sex, population censuses and statistical surveys, there are a lot of MICS, DHS, LSS, and household surveys data.

This site represents a first attempt to create an electronic database of gender statistics with the aim of further improving the information on gender, regular and timely releasing data with breaking by sex. Recommendations of the international organizations towards the systematization, introduction and development of new indicators to enable a comparative analysis of the situation of women and men in society are taken into account.

Durable international mandate of gender statistics was formulated by the United Nations Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The CEDAW is the only international agreement in which the rights and interests of women are considered comprehensively and, as such, it is one of the most important mechanisms of accountability. States that have ratified or acceded to the CEDAW have a legal obligation to implement all the provisions of the Convention and report on progress the CEDAW Committee every four years. An important basis for this reporting is gender statistics, and the CEDAW Committee often makes comments on the need for such data to substantiate statements made.

The CEDAW Convention adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly is an international document on the rights of women. Uzbekistan was one of the first Central Asian countries to ratify the convention in 1995. It has reported four times to the CEDAW Committee on its implementation.

Uzbekistan will submit its fifth periodical report on the CEDAW implementation in 2014.