United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women: Department of Economic & Social Affairs

Assessing the Status of Women: A Guide to Reporting Under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

This manual is designed to serve as a framework for monitoring implementation of the CEDAW. Its main purpose is to assist individuals and women's human rights and other groups and non-governmental organizations to assess the status of women and to determine the extent of Convention implementation in the countries that have ratified or acceded to the Convention. It provides comments on the articles of the Convention and