At the 24th Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, held in New York, Azerbaijan's candidate Elgun Safarov was elected as a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the 2027–2030 term.

Axar.az reports, citing the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that candidates from 20 countries competed for 12 vacant seats on the Committee. Elgun Safarov, a representative of Azerbaijan's State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs, was elected in the first round of voting.

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, established under the 1979 Convention, is the principal treaty body responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Convention. It consists of 23 independent experts, elected globally, who assess States Parties' compliance with their obligations under the treaty.

The ministry recalled that, in addition to the CEDAW Committee, Azerbaijani representatives have over the past two weeks also been elected to the Human Rights Committee (ICCPR) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), achieving the country's best-ever result in elections to the UN human rights treaty bodies.

In addition, following previous elections, Azerbaijan is already represented on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW).

As a result of these elections, Azerbaijani representatives will be represented in five of the ten active UN human rights treaty bodies. In terms of representation on these bodies, Azerbaijan now ranks joint second-third among all UN member states, alongside the People's Republic of China, which the ministry described as further evidence of the country's growing international standing and the high level of confidence it enjoys within the international community.