These attitudes also contribute to the propagation of pornography and the depiction and other commercial exploitation of women as sexual objects, rather than as individuals. This in turn contributes to gender-based violence.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Gender
Violence
Person(s) affected
Women
Year
1992
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 19, Violence against women (1992), para. 12.