General Recommendations Adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women issues recommendations which may be used as an aid to interpreting the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The General Recommendations which refer to substantive rights of women deal with the following subjects: #3 - Article 5, public education campaigns #4 - withdrawal of reservations made to CEDAW #5 - adoption of positive measures to promote real equality between men and women #6 -creation of effective national machinery to monitor and promote women's rights #8 - implementation of article 8 of the Convention #9 - need for statistical information relating to women #12 - violence against women #13 - equal pay for work of equal value #14 - elimination of female circumcision or FGM #15 - women and HIV/AIDS #16 - unpaid work in rural and family enterprises #17 - unrecognized value of women's work in the gross national product #18 - disabled women #19 - violence against women #20 - reservations to the Convention #21 - equality in marriage and family relations #23 - political and public life #24 - women and health.