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Useful
Reference Documents
The following
is a list of official and unofficial documents that States parties
should/could refer to, in order to establish State obligation under
the CEDAW Convention.
Official
documents (international)
(i) The CEDAW
Convention. Since the official guidelines require that the report
is written under each of the substantive articles (1-16) it is
essential to refer to the treaty itself. (Click here
for text of the CEDAW Convention)
(ii) General
Recommendations. These are authoritative explanations of the meaning
and scope of the provisions of the CEDAW Convention made by CEDAW
according to the authority given to it under article 21 of the
Convention. The General Recommendations are considered to be the
jurisprudence that has developed over the years in interpreting
the meaning and scope of the CEDAW Convention. States Parties
are required to take them into consideration when establishing
their obligations. Currently, there are 24 General Recommendations.
However, not all of them are substantive in nature. (Click here
for list and details of General Recommendations)
(iii) The reports of the thematic expert group meetings convened
by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) and thematic
background papers prepared by DAW for the Commission on the Status
of Women (CSW) meetings.
(iv) The Beijing Platform for Action and the Outcome Document
adopted by the UN General Assembly Special Session (5-9 June,
2000): "Further Actions and Initiatives to Implement the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action".
(v) International Conference on Population and Development, Plan
of Action
(vi) The Vienna Programme and Plan of Action
Official
documents (national)
National documents that need to be referred to are, the National
Development Plans, Annual Reports of various ministries, sectors
and departments, National Policy on Women, National Plan of Action
(Beijing Plan of Action), ICPD Plan of Action and other relevant
plans.
Unofficial
documents
There are many papers written by academics and experts that provide
guidance on the scope of State obligation and on the methodology
of writing the report. One publication that is recommended is "Assessing
the Status of Women: A Guide to Reporting Under the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women"
(2002), produced by the Commonwealth Secretariat, the United Nations
and IWRAW Minnesota. This is not an official document but a resource
and can be utilised according to its relevance.
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