Summary of General Recommendations

The following table is a summary of what these General Comments/Recommendations are about. Click on the title of the General Recommendation to read the full text.

Title	Subject Matter
General Recommendation No. 1 (fifth session, 1986)	Time frame for initial and periodic reports
General Recommendation No. 2 (sixth session, 1987)	Format of initial and periodic reports
General Recommendation No. 3 (sixth session, 1987)	Role of education and public information programs to reduce stereotypical representations of women [Article 5]
General Recommendation No. 4 (sixth session, 1987)	Reservations to the Convention
General Recommendation No. 5 (seventh session, 1988)	Use of affirmative action measures to advance women's integration into education, the economy, politics and employment. [Articles 4, 7, 8, 10, 11]
General Recommendation No. 6 (seventh session, 1988)	Establishment of effective national machineries for the advancement of women; and distribution of CEDAW concluding observations
General Recommendation No. 7 (seventh session, 1988)	Resources for the CEDAW Committee
General Recommendation No. 8 (seventh session, 1988)	The use of affirmative action measures to achieve representation of women in international work [Articles 4 & 8]
General Recommendation No. 9 (eighth session, 1989)	Statistical data concerning the situation of women
General Recommendation No. 10 (eighth session, 1989)	Actions to commemorate the 10th anniversary of CEDAW
General Recommendation No. 11 (eighth session, 1989)	Technical advisory services for reporting obligations
General Recommendation No. 12 (eighth session, 1989)	Violence against women [Articles 2, 5, 11, 12 & 16]
General Recommendation No. 13 (eighth session, 1989)	Equal remuneration for work of equal value [Article 11]
General Recommendation No. 14 (ninth session, 1990)	Female circumcision [Articles 10 & 12]
General Recommendation No. 15 (ninth session, 1990)	Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) [Article 12]
General Recommendation No. 16 (tenth session, 1991)	Outlining the steps to be taken to recognise the contribution of unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises [Articles 2 & 11]
General Recommendation No. 17 (tenth session, 1991)	Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the gross national product [Article 11]
General Recommendation No. 18 (tenth session, 1991)	Disabled women [Articles 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14]
General Recommendation No. 19 (11th session, 1992)	Violence against women [Articles 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16]
General Recommendation No. 20 (11th session, 1992)	Reservations to the Convention
General Recommendation No. 21 (13th session, 1994)	Equality in marriage and family relations [Articles 9, 15 & 16]
General Recommendation No. 22 (14th session, 1995)	Amending article 20 of the Convention to increase meeting time available for the CEDAW Committee
General Recommendation No. 23 (16th session, 1997)	Measures to be taken to implement equality in women’s political and public life [Articles 4, 7 & 8]
General Recommendation No. 24 (20th session, 1999)	Measures to be taken to implement equality for women’s right to health [Article 12, 5, 10, 11 & 14]
General Recommendation No. 25 (30th session, 2004)	Temporary special measures (elaboration on Article 4.1)
General Recommendation No. 26 (42nd session, 2008)	Women migrant workers

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