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CEDAW

  • CEDAW General Recommendation 1 (Reporting by States parties)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 2 (Reporting by States parties)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 3 (Education and public information campaigns)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 4 (Reservations to the Convention)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 5 (Temporary special measures)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 6 (Effective national machinery and publicity)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 7 (Resources)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 8 (Implementation of article 8 of the Convention)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 9 (Statistical data concerning the situation of women)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 10 (10th anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 11 (Technical advisory services for reporting obligations)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 12 (Violence against women)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 13 (Equal remuneration for work of equal value)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 14 (Female circumcision)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 15 (Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of AIDS)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 16 (Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 17 (Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the GNP)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 18 (Disabled women)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 19 (Violence against women)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 20 (Reservations to the Convention)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 21 (Equality in marriage and family relations)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 22 (Amending article 20 of the Convention)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 23 (Political and public life)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 24 (Article 12: Women and health)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 25 (Article 4, paragraph 1: Temporary Special Measures)
  • CEDAW General Recommendation 26 (on Women Migrant Workers)
  • CEDAW Recommendation 27 (on older women and the protection of their human rights)
  • General Recommendation No. 28 (The Core Obligations of States Parties under Article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women)
  • CEDAW Draft General Recommendation on Article 16

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    A treaty body may adopt General Comments or Recommendations, which are official statements adopted by the Committee that elaborate on the meaning of treaty obligations. Some General Comments or Recommendations may be procedural in nature, others may address substantive provisions of the treaty and provide the Committee's interpretation of treaty rights.

    CERD and CEDAW refer to these official statements as “General Recommendations” and CED, CRPD, CCPR, CESCR, CAT, CRC and CMW refer to them as “General Comments”.