List of General Recommendations by CEDAW
- General Recommendation 1(Reporting by States parties)(PDF24KB)
- General Recommendation 2(Reporting by States parties)(PDF26KB)
- General Recommendation 3(Education and public information campaigns)(PDF26KB)
- General Recommendation 4(Reservations to the Convention)(PDF25KB)
- General Recommendation 5(Temporary special measures)(PDF25KB)
- General Recommendation 6(Effective national machinery and publicity)(PDF25KB)
- General Recommendation 7(Resources)(PDF26KB)
- General Recommendation 8(Implementation of article 8 of the Convention)(PDF24KB)
- General Recommendation 9(Statistical data concerning the situation of women)(PDF25KB)
- General Recommendation 10(Tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women)(PDF27KB)
- General Recommendation 11(Technical advisory services for reporting obligations)(PDF26KB)
- General Recommendation 12(Violence against women)(PDF25KB)
- General Recommendation 13(Equal remuneration for work of equal value)(PDF26KB)
- General Recommendation 14(Female circumcision)(PDF28KB)
- General Recommendation 15(Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome(AIDS))(PDF27KB)
- General Recommendation 16(Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises)(PDF26KB)
- General Recommendation 17(Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the gross national product)(PDF27KB)
- General Recommendation 18(Disabled women)(PDF25KB)
- General Recommendation 19(Violence against women)(PDF45KB)
- General Recommendation 20(Reservations to the Convention)(PDF24KB)
- General Recommendation 21(Equality in marriage and family relations)(PDF65KB)
- General Recommendation 22(Amending article 20 of the Convention)(PDF28KB)
- General Recommendation 23(Political and public life)(PDF60KB)
- General Recommendation 24(Women and health)(PDF48KB)
- General Recommendation 25 (Temporary special measures) (PDF67KB)
- General Recommendation 26 (Women Migrant Workers) (PDF74KB)
- General Recommendation 27 (Older women and protection of their human rights) (PDF70KB)
- General Recommendation 28 (The Core Obligations of States Parties under Article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) (PDF80KB)
- General Recommendation 29 (Article 16 - Economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution) (PDF78KB)
- General Recommendation 30 (on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations) (PDF121KB)
- Joint general recommendation/general comment 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (on harmful practices) (PDF181KB)
- General Recommendation 32 (on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women) (PDF176KB)
- General Recommendation 33 (General recommendation on women’s access to justice) (PDF493KB)
- General recommendation No. 34 -- sixty-third session, 2016 - on the rights of rural women
- General recommendation No. 35 -- sixty-seventh session on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19
- General recommendation No. 36 -- sixty-eighth session, on the right of girls and women to education
- General recommendation No. 37 -- sixty-ninth session, on Gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change
- General recommendation No. 38-- seventy-seventh session, on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration
- General recommendation No. 39 (2022) on the rights of Indigenous women and girls