The Committee’s General Recommendations
Article 21 of the Convention empowers the CEDAW Committee to make general recommendations on issues that they have noted warrant greater conceptual elaboration and attention by States. As of September 2009, the CEDAW Committee has adopted 26 such recommendations, including on the following issues: violence against women; equal remuneration for work of equal value; female circumcision; women and AIDS; disabled women; equality in marriage and family relations; women in political and public life; women and health; women and migrant workers. Other recommendations have been on technical matters such as reporting, reservations, and resources.
General Recommendations:
- Reporting Guidelines (1986)
- Reporting Guidelines (1987)
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Education and Public Education Programmes (1987)
Girls study in the Sultan Razia High School in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan. UNICEF aimed to enroll an additional 330,000 girls in schools in 2008. (Photo: UN Photo/Shehzad Noorani.) - Reservations (1987)
- Temporary Special Measures (1988)
- Effective National Machinery (1988)
- Resources (1988)
- Article 8 (1988)
- Statistical Data (1989)
- 10th Anniversary of CEDAW (1989)
- Technical Advisory Services for Reporting (1989)
- Violence against Women (1989)
- Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value (1989)
- Female Circumcision (1990)
- Women and HIV/AIDS (1990)
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Unpaid Women Workers in Rural and Urban Family Enterprises (1991)
Women participate in the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence campaign at City Hall, Monrovia, Liberia, 25 November 2008. (Photo: UNMIL/Christopher Herwig.) - Recognition of Women’s Unpaid Work in the GNP (1991)
- Disabled Women (1991)
- Violence against Women (1992)
- Reservations (1992)
- Equality in Marriage and Family Relations (1994)
- Article 20 (1995)
- Women in Political and Public Life (1997)
- Women and Health (1999)
- Temporary Special Measures (2004)
- Women Migrant Workers (2008)
Read the full text of the General Recommendations.
