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Recent United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women - General Comments

March 2016

• General Recommendation No. 34: The rights of rural women [2016] UNCEDAWGC 1; CEDAW/C/GC/34 (7 March 2016)

August 2015

• General Recommendation No. 33: Women's access to justice [2015] UNCEDAWGC 1; CEDAW/C/GC/33 (3 August 2015)

November 2014

• General Recommendation No. 32: Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women [2014] UNCEDAWGC 2; CEDAW/C/GC/32 (14 November 2014)
• Joint General Recommendation/General Comment No. 31: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices [2014] UNCEDAWGC 1; CEDAW/C/GC/31/CRC/C/GC/18 (14 November 2014)

October 2013

• General Recommendation No. 30: Women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations [2013] UNCEDAWGC 2; CEDAW/C/GC/30 (31 October 2013)
• General Recommendation No. 29: Article 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution) [2013] UNCEDAWGC 1; CEDAW/C/GC/29 (31 October 2013)

December 2010

• 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 [2010] UNCEDAWGC 2; CEDAW/C/GC/28 (16 December 2010)
• General Recommendation No. 27 (forty-seventh session, 2010): Older women and protection of their human rights [2010] UNCEDAWGC 1; CEDAW/C/GC/27 (16 December 2010)

December 2008

• General Recommendation No. 26: Women migrant workers [2008] UNCEDAWGC 1; CEDAW/C/2009/WP.1/R/7138 (5 December 2008)

August 2004

• General Recommendation No. 25: Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, on temporary special measures [2004] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/3733 (18 August 2004)

January 1999

• General Recommendation No. 24: Women and health (Chapter I) [1999] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/4738 (1 January 1999)

January 1997

• General Recommendation No. 23 (16th session, 1997): Article 7 political and public life (part two, chap. I, sect. A) [1997] UNCEDAWGC 2; INT/CEDAW/GEC/4736 (1 January 1997)
• General Recommendation No. 22: Amending article 20 of the Convention (Chapter I,A) [1997] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/4734 (1 January 1997)

January 1994

• General Recommendation No. 21: Equality in marriage and family relations (Chapter I,A) [1994] UNCEDAWGC 1; A/49/38(SUPP)/4733 (1 January 1994)

February 1993

• General Recommendation No. 20: Reservations to the Convention [1993] UNCEDAWGC 2; INT/CEDAW/GEC/4730 (19 February 1993)
• General Recommendation No. 19 (11th session, 1992): Violence against women [1993] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/3731 (19 February 1993)

January 1992

• General Recommendation No. 18 (tenth session, 1991): Disabled women [1992] UNCEDAWGC 3; INT/CEDAW/GEC/4729 (30 January 1992)
• General Recommendation No. 17 (tenth session, 1991): Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the gross national product [1992] UNCEDAWGC 2; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5833 (30 January 1992)
• General Recommendation No. 16 (tenth session, 1991): Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises [1992] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/3730 (30 January 1992)

June 1990

• General Recommendation No. 15: Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) [1990] UNCEDAWGC 7; INT/CEDAW/GEC/4726 (6 June 1990)
• General Recommendation No. 14 (ninth session, 1990): Female circumcision [1990] UNCEDAWGC 6; INT/CEDAW/GEC/3729 (6 June 1990)

February 1990

• General Recommendation No. 13 (eighth session, 1989): Equal remuneration for work of equal value [1990] UNCEDAWGC 5; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5832 (13 February 1990)
• General Recommendation No. 12 (eighth session, 1989): Violence against women [1990] UNCEDAWGC 4; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5831 (13 February 1990)
• General Recommendation No. 11 (eighth session, 1989): Technical advisory services for reporting obligations [1990] UNCEDAWGC 3; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5830 (13 February 1990)
• General Recommendation No. 10 (eighth session, 1989): Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW [1990] UNCEDAWGC 2; INT/CEDAW/GEC/3728 (13 February 1990)
• General Recommendation No. 9 (eighth session, 1989): Statistical data [1990] UNCEDAWGC 1; A/44/38/3724 (13 February 1990)

January 1988

• General Recommendation No. 8 (seventh session, 1988): Implementation of article 8 of the Convention [1988] UNCEDAWGC 4; INT/CEDAW/GEC/3727 (1 January 1988)
• General Recommendation No. 7 (Seventh session, 1988): Resources [1988] UNCEDAWGC 3; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5829 (1 January 1988)
• General Recommendation No. 6 (seventh session, 1988): Effective national machinery and publicity [1988] UNCEDAWGC 2; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5828 (1 January 1988)
• General Recommendation No. 5 (seventh session, 1988): Temporary special measures [1988] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5827 (1 January 1988)

January 1987

• General Recommendation No. 4 (Sixth session, 1987): Reservations [1987] UNCEDAWGC 3; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5826 (1 January 1987)
• General Recommendation No. 3 (sixth session, 1987): Education and public information programmes [1987] UNCEDAWGC 2; INT/CEDAW/GEC/5825 (1 January 1987)
• General Recommendation No. 2 (sixth session, 1987): Reporting guidelines [1987] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/3726 (1 January 1987)

January 1986

• General Recommendation No. 1 (fifth session, 1986): Reporting by States parties [1986] UNCEDAWGC 1; INT/CEDAW/GEC/4724 (1 January 1986)