Gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19 2017, para. 1
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In its general recommendation No. 19 (1992) on violence against women, adopted at its eleventh session, the Committee clarified that discrimination against women, as defined in article 1 of the Convention, included gender-based violence, that is “violence which is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately”, and that it constituted a violation of their human rights.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women