A Note on the Enforcement of Recommendations

As already mentioned, there are no legal mechanisms available by which to enforce implementation of the recommendations of the CEDAW Committee to remedy women's rights violations within the States party concerned. However, in practice, the political and moral weight of views of human rights treaty bodies, including the CEDAW Committee, have often proved sufficient to persuade States to implement their views and recommendations domestically.
At one level, a recommendation from the CEDAW Committee is a recognition from an international forum that a States party has been unable to fulfill its obligations under international human rights law. As such it may be very persuasively used in national courts and mechanisms. On the other hand, a public acknowledgement, both internationally and nationally, of women's rights violations that take place within the jurisdiction of a States Party can often be a useful means for raising awareness and mobilising civil society to demand, from the domestic platform, those rights that the State has pledged to uphold.