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General Recommendation
No. 1 - Reporting by States parties
(Fifth session, 1986)
"Initial
reports submitted under article 18 of the Convention should cover
the situation up to the date of submission. Thereafter, reports
should be submitted at least every four years after the first report
was due and should include obstacles encountered in implementing
the Convention fully and the measures adopted to overcome such obstacles."
General Recommendation No. 2 - Reporting by States parties
(Sixth session, 1987)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Bearing in mind
that the Committee had been faced with difficulties in its work
because some initial reports of States parties under article 18
of the Convention did not reflect adequately the information available
in the State party concerned in accordance with the guidelines,
Recommends:
(a) That the
States parties, in preparing reports under article 18 of the Convention,
should follow the general guidelines adopted in August 1983 (CEDAW/C/7)
as to the form, content and date of reports;
(b) That the
States parties should follow the general recommendation adopted
in 1986 in these terms:
"Initial
reports submitted under article 18 of the Convention should
cover the situation up to the date of submission. Thereafter,
reports should be submitted at least every four years after
the first report was due and should include obstacles encountered
in implementing the Convention fully and the measures adopted
to overcome such obstacles."
(c) That additional
information supplementing the report of a State party should be
sent to the Secretariat at least three months before the session
at which the report is due to be considered.
General Recommendation No. 3 - Education
and public information campaigns
(Sixth session, 1987)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Considering
that the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women has considered 34 reports from States parties since 1983,
Further considering
that, although the reports have come from States with different
levels of development, they present features in varying degrees
showing the existence of stereotyped conceptions of women, owing
to socio-cultural factors, that perpetuate discrimination based
on sex and hinder the implementation of article 5 of the Convention,
Urges all States
parties effectively to adopt education and public information programmes,
which will help eliminate prejudices and current practices that
hinder the full operation of the principle of the social equality
of women.
General Recommendation No. 4 - Reservations to
the Convention
(Sixth session, 1987)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Having examined
reports from States parties at its sessions,
Expressed concern
in relation to the significant number of reservations that appeared
to be incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention,
Welcomes the
decision of the States parties to consider reservations at its next
meeting in New York in 1988, and to that end suggests that all States
parties concerned reconsider such reservations with a view to withdrawing
them.
General Recommendation No. 5 - Temporary special
measures
(Seventh session, 1988)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Taking note
that the reports, the introductory remarks and the replies by States
parties reveal that while significant progress has been achieved
in regard to repealing or modifying discriminatory laws, there is
still a need for action to be taken to implement fully the Convention
by introducing measures to promote de facto equality between men
and women,
Recalling article
4.1 of the Convention,
Recommends that
States parties make more use of temporary special measures such
as positive action, preferential treatment or quota systems to advance
women's integration into education, the economy, politics and employment.
General Recommendation No. 6 - Effective national
machinery and publicity
(Seventh session, 1988)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Having considered
the reports of States parties to the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Noting United
Nations General Assembly resolution 42/60 of 30 November 1987,
Recommends that
States parties:
1. Establish
and/or strengthen effective national machinery, institutions and
procedures, at a high level of Government, and with adequate resources,
commitment and authority to:
(a) Advise
on the impact on women of all government policies;
(b) Monitor
the situation of women comprehensively;
(c) Help formulate
new policies and effectively carry out strategies and measures
to eliminate discrimination;
2. Take appropriate
steps to ensure the dissemination of the Convention, the reports
of the States parties under article 18 and the reports of the Committee
in the language of the States concerned;
3. Seek the
assistance of the Secretary-General and the Department of Public
Information in providing translations of the Convention and the
reports of the Committee;
4. Include in
their initial and periodic reports the action taken in respect of
this recommendation.
General Recommendation No. 7 - Resources
(Seventh session, 1988)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Noting General
Assembly resolutions 40/39, 41/108 and in particular 42/60, paragraph
14, which invited the Committee and the States parties to consider
the question of holding future sessions of the Committee at Vienna,
Bearing in mind
General Assembly resolution 42/105 and, in particular, paragraph
11, which requests the Secretary-General to strengthen coordination
between the United Nations Centre for Human Rights and the Centre
for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the secretariat
in relation to the implementation of human rights treaties and servicing
treaty bodies,
Recommends
to the States parties:
1. That they
continue to support proposals for strengthening the coordination
between the Centre for Human Rights at Geneva and the Centre for
Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs at Vienna, in relation
to the servicing of the Committee;
2. That they
support proposals that the Committee meet in New York and Vienna;
3. That they
take all necessary and appropriate steps to ensure that adequate
resources and services are available to the Committee to assist
it in its functions under the Convention and in particular that
full-time staff are available to help the Committee to prepare for
its sessions and during its session;
4. That they
ensure that supplementary reports and materials are submitted to
the Secretariat in due time to be translated into the official languages
of the United Nations in time for distribution and consideration
by the Committee.
General Recommendation No. 8 - Implementation
of article 8 of the Convention
(Seventh session, 1988)*
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Having considered
the reports of States parties submitted in accordance with article
18 of the Convention,
Recommends that
States parties take further direct measures in accordance with article
4 of the Convention to ensure the full implementation of article
8 of the Convention and to ensure to women on equal terms with men
and without any discrimination the opportunities to represent their
Government at the international level and to participate in the
work of international organizations.
General Recommendation No. 9 - Statistical
data concerning the situation of women
(Eighth session, 1989)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Considering
that statistical information is absolutely necessary in order to
understand the real situation of women in each of the States parties
to the Convention,
Having observed
that many of the States parties that present their reports for consideration
by the Committee do not provide statistics,
Recommends that
States parties should make every effort to ensure that their national
statistical services responsible for planning national censuses
and other social and economic surveys formulate their questionnaires
in such a way that data can be disaggregated according to gender,
with regard to both absolute numbers and percentages, so that interested
users can easily obtain information on the situation of women in
the particular sector in which they are interested.
General Recommendation No. 10 - Tenth anniversary
of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women
(Eighth session, 1989)
The Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Considering
that 18 December 1989 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption
of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women,
Considering
further that in those 10 years the Convention has proved to be one
of the most effective instruments that the United Nations has adopted
to promote equality between the sexes in the societies of its States
Members,
Recalling general
recommendation No. 6 (seventh session 1988) on effective national
machinery and publicity,
Recommends that,
on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the
Convention, the States parties should consider:
1. Undertaking
programmes including conferences and seminars to publicize the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
in the main languages of and providing information on the Convention
in their respective countries;
2. Inviting
their national women's organizations to cooperate in the publicity
campaigns regarding the Convention and its implementation and encouraging
non-governmental organizations at the national, regional and international
levels to publicize the Convention and its implementation;
3. Encouraging
action to ensure the full implementation of the principles of the
Convention, and in particular article 8, which relates to the participation
of women at all levels of activity of the United Nations and the
United Nations system;
4. Requesting
the Secretary-General to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the
adoption of the Convention by publishing and disseminating, in cooperation
with the specialized agencies, printed and other materials regarding
the Convention and its implementation in all official languages
of the United Nations, preparing television documentaries about
the Convention, and making the necessary resources available to
the Division for the Advancement of Women, Centre for Social Development
and Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations Office at Vienna,
to prepare an analysis of the information provided by States parties
in order to update and publish the report of the Committee (A/CONF.116/13),
which was first published for the World Conference to Review and
Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women:
Equality, Development and Peace, held at Nairobi in 1985.
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