CEDAW South AsiaGeneral Recommendations

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.

G.R. No.	Year	Particulars
1	1986	Reporting Guidelines
2	1987	Reporting Guidelines
3	1987	Education and Public Information Programmes
4	1987	Reservations
5	1988	Temporary special measures
6	1988	Effective national machinery and publicity
7	1988	Resources
8	1988	Article 8
9	1989	Statistical data
10	1989	Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW
11	1989	Technical advisory services for reporting
12	1989	Violence against women
13	1989	Equal remuneration for work of equal value
14	1990	Female circumcision
15	1990	Women and AIDS
16	1991	Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises
17	1991	Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the GNP
18	1991	Disabled women
19	1992	Violence against women
20	1992	Reservations
21	1994	Equality in marriage and family relations
22	1995	Article 20 of the Convention
23	1997	Women in political and public life
24	1999	Women and health
25	2004	Temporary special measures
26	2008	Women Migrant Workers
27	2010	Older women and protection of their human rights
28	2010	The Core Obligations of States Parties under Article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
29	2013	Economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution
30	2013	On women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations
31	2014	On harmful practices
32	2014	On gender related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women
33	2015	Women’s Access to Justice
34	2016	Rights of rural women
35	2016	Adoption of General Recommendation No. 35 on Gender-based Violence against Women, Updating General Recommendation No. 19
36	2017	General Recommendation No. 36 on girls’ and women’s right to education
37	2018	General Recommendation No. 37 (2018) on Gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change
38	20	General recommendation No. 38 (2020) on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration.

Source: United Nations Treaty Collection

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