The Committee issues General Recommendations which are interpretative comments on specific articles of the Convention. The General Recommendations are drafted to interpret articles and standards of the Convention, and to set out guidelines for their implementation. As on December 2010, the CEDAW Committee has issued 28 General Recommendations.
General recommendation No. 1 — fifth session, 1986 reporting guidelines
General recommendation No. 2 — sixth session, 1987 reporting guidelines
General recommendation No. 3 — sixth session, 1987 education and public information programmes
General recommendation No. 4 — sixth session, 1987 reservations
General recommendation No. 5 — seventh session, 1988 temporary special measures
General recommendation No. 6 — seventh session, 1988 effective national machinery and publicity
General recommendation No. 7 — seventh session, 1988 resources
General recommendation No. 8 — seventh session, 1988 article 8
General recommendation No. 9 — eighth session, 1989 statistical data
General recommendation No. 10 — eighth session, 1989 tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW
General recommendation No. 11 — eighth session, 1989 technical advisory services for reporting
General recommendation No. 12 — eighth session, 1989 violence against women
General recommendation No. 13 — eighth session, 1989 equal remuneration for work of equal value
General recommendation No. 14 — ninth session, 1990 female circumcision
General recommendation No. 15 — ninth session, 1990 women and AIDS
General recommendation No. 16 — tenth session, 1991 unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises
General recommendation No. 17 — tenth session, 1991 measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the GNP
General recommendation No. 18 — tenth session, 1991 disabled women
General recommendation No. 19 — eleventh session, 1992 violence against women
General recommendation No. 20 — eleventh session, 1992 reservations
General recommendation No. 21 — thirteenth session, 1994 equality in marriage and family relations
General recommendation No. 22 — fourteenth session, 1995 article 20 of the Convention
General recommendation No. 23 — sixteenth session, 1997 women in political and public life
General recommendation No. 24 — twentieth session, 1999 article 12 – women and health
General recommendation No. 25 — thirtieth session, 2004 article 4 paragraph 1 – Temporary special measures
General recommendation No. 26 — forty-second session, 2008, Women Migrant Workers
General recommendation No. 27 — forty-seventh session, 2010 – Older women and protection of their human rights
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
