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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;color:#0072C6">UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;color:#0072C6">CEDAW Committee General Recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The Committee also makes recommendations on any issue affecting women to which it believes the States parties should devote more attention.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 1 -- fifth session, 1986 reporting guidelines<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/4724&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 2 -- sixth session, 1987 reporting guidelines<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3726&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 3 -- sixth session, 1987 education and public information programmes<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5825&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 4 -- sixth session, 1987 reservations<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5826&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 5 -- seventh session, 1988 temporary special measures<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5827&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 6 -- seventh session, 1988 effective national machinery and publicity<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5828&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 7 -- seventh session, 1988 resources<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5829&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 8 -- seventh session, 1988 article 8<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3727&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 9 -- eighth session, 1989 statistical data<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3724&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 10 -- eighth session, 1989 tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3728&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 11 -- eighth session, 1989 technical advisory services for reporting<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5830&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 12 -- eighth session, 1989 violence against women<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5831&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 13 -- eighth session, 1989 equal remuneration for work of equal value<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5832&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 14 -- ninth session, 1990 female circumcision<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3729&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 15 -- ninth session, 1990 women and AIDS<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/4726&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 16 -- tenth session, 1991 unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3730&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 17 -- tenth session, 1991 measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women
and their recognition in the GNP<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/5833&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 18 -- tenth session, 1991 disabled women<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/4729&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 19 -- eleventh session, 1992 violence against women<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3731&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 20 -- eleventh session, 1992 reservations<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 21 -- thirteenth session, 1994 equality in marriage and family relations<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/4733&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 22 -- fourteenth session, 1995 article 20 of the Convention<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/4734&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English, French, Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 23 -- sixteenth session, 1997 women in political and public life<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/4736&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French, Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 24 -- twentieth session, 1999 article 12 - women and health<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/4738&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 25 -- thirtieth session, 2004 article 4 paragraph 1 - Temporary special measures<br>
Available in languages: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CEDAW/GEC/3733&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English French Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General Recommendation No. 26 -- forty-second session, 2008, Women Migrant Workers<br>
Available in languague: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/2009/WP.1/R&Lang=en" title="General Recommendation No. 26 - forty-second session, 2008, Women Migrant Workers"><span style="color:#663399">Chinese
English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 27 -- forty-seventh session, 2010 - Older women and protection of their human rights<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/27&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 28 -- forty-seventh session, 2010 - The Core Obligations of States Parties under Article 2 of the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/28&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 29 -- fifty-fourth session, 2013 - Article 16 - Economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their
dissolution <br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/29&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 30 (fifty-sixth session, 2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/30&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Joint general recommendation No. 31 -- fifty-ninth session, 2014 - of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
and No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/31/CRC/C/GC/18&Lang=en" title="GC 31 in all languages"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 32 -- fifty-ninth session, 2014 - on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality
and statelessness of women<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/32&Lang=en" title="GC 32 in all languages"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 33 -- sixty-first session, 2015 - on women’s access to justice<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/33&Lang=en" title="General recommendation 33 on women’s access to justice in all languages"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese
English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 34 -- sixty-third session, 2016 - on the rights of rural women<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/34&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 35 -- sixty-seventh session on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/35&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 36 -- sixty-eighth session, on the right of girls and women to education<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/36&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">General recommendation No. 37 -- sixty-ninth session, on Gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate
change<br>
Available in language: <a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/GC/37&Lang=en"><span style="color:#663399">English</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The General recommendations 1 - 25 are available in
<a href="http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=HRI/GEN/1/REV.9%28VOL.II%29&Lang=en">
<span style="color:#663399">Arabic Chinese and Russian</span></a> in document HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol.II)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/Recommendations.aspx"><span style="color:blue">https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/Recommendations.aspx</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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