Part I The human rights of women and girls
General recommendations adopted by the CEDAW Committee70
• General Recommendation No. 16
on unpaid women workers in rural and urban
family enterprises (1991)
• General Recommendation No. 1
on reporting guidelines (1986)
• General Recommendation No. 2
on reporting guidelines (1987)
• General Recommendation No. 17
on measurement and quantification of the
unremunerated domestic activities of women
and their recognition in the GNP (1991)
• General Recommendation No. 3
on education and public information
programmes (1987)
• General Recommendation No. 18
on disabled women (1991)
• General Recommendation No. 4
on reservations (1987)
• General Recommendation No. 19
on violence against women (1992)
• General Recommendation No. 5
on temporary special measures (1988)
• General Recommendation No. 6
on effective national machinery and publicity
(1988)
• General Recommendation No. 7
on resources (1988)
• General Recommendation No. 23
on women in political and public life (1997)
• General Recommendation No. 9
on statistical data (1989)
• General Recommendation No. 10
on the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the
Convention (1989)
• General Recommendation No. 11
on technical advisory services for reporting
(1989)
• General Recommendation No. 12
on violence against women (1989)
• General Recommendation No. 13
on equal remuneration for work of equal value
(1989)
• General Recommendation No. 15
on women and AIDS (1990)
• General Recommendation No. 21
on equality in marriage and family relations (1994)
• General Recommendation No. 22
on article 20 (1995)
• General Recommendation No. 8
on article 8 (1988)
• General Recommendation No. 14
on female circumcision (1990)
• General Recommendation No. 20
on reservations (1992)
• General Recommendation No. 24
on article 12 (women and health) (1999)
• General Recommendation No. 25
on article 4, paragraph 1 (temporary special
measures) (2004)
• General Recommendation No. 26
on women migrant workers (2008)
• General Recommendation No. 27
on older women and protection of their human
rights (2010)
• General Recommendation No. 28
on the core obligations of States parties under
article 2 (2010)
• General Recommendation No. 29
on article 16 (economic consequences of
marriage, family relations and their dissolution)
(2013)
3.4.2. Special procedures dealing with the human rights of women 70
The work of many, if not all, special procedures will have a distinct gender dimension. However, a
number of the thematic special procedures deal with issues that are specifically or primarily focused on
women and girls and their rights.
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All general recommendations adopted by the CEDAW Committee are available at www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/
Recommendations.aspx.
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