Sri Lanka, June 29 -- Sri Lanka's candidate Prof. Rangita De Silva De Alwis was re-elected to the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for a second consecutive term, 2027-2030, at the elections conducted during the 24th Meeting of the State Parties to the CEDAW Convention at the United Nations in New York recently.

State Parties to the Convention elected 12 members out of 20 candidates to the Committee of the Convention. Sri Lanka secured the highest number of votes: 144 votes of 187 member states that participated in the elections. Antigua and Barbuda, Azerbaijan, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, Estonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Spain and Uganda were the other elected members to the Committee. Prof...