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Title | Date added | Template | Body | Legal status | Document type | Year | Document code | Original document | Paragraph text | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Reservations 1987, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Expressed concern in relation to the significant number of reservations that appeared to be incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention, |
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| 1987 | ||||
Effective national machinery and publicity 1988, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Having considered the reports of States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, |
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| 1988 | ||||
Temporary special measures 1988, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Recalling article 4.1 of the Convention, |
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| 1988 | ||||
Statistical data 1989, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Considering that statistical information is absolutely necessary in order to understand the real situation of women in each of the States parties to the Convention, |
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| 1989 | ||||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Affirming its support for the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982), |
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| 1991 | ||||
Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 1990, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Noting World Health Assembly resolution WHA 41.24 on the avoidance of discrimination in relation to HIV-infected people and people with AIDS, of 13 May 1988, resolution 1989/11 of the Commission on Human Rights on non-discrimination in the field of health, of 2 March 1989, and in particular the Paris Declaration on Women, Children and AIDS, of 30 November 1989, |
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| 1990 | ||||
Equal remuneration for work of equal value 1989, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Recalling also that it has considered 51 initial and 5 second periodic reports of States parties since 1983, |
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| 1989 | ||||
Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW 1989, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Recalling General recommendation No. 6 (Seventh session, 1988) on effective national machinery and publicity, |
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| 1989 | ||||
Female circumcision 1990, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Noting with interest the study of the Special Rapporteur on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, as well as the study of the Special Working Group on Traditional Practices, |
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| 1990 | ||||
Resources 1988, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Noting General Assembly resolutions 40/39, 41/108 and in particular 42/60, paragraph 14, which invited the Committee and the States parties to consider the question of holding future sessions of the Committee at Vienna, |
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| 1988 | ||||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Having considered more than 60 periodic reports of States parties, and having recognized that they provide scarce information on disabled women, |
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| 1991 | ||||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Concerned about the situation of disabled women, who suffer from a double discrimination linked to their special living conditions, |
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| 1991 | ||||
Violence against women 1989, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Taking into account Economic and Social Council resolution 1988/27, |
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| 1989 | ||||
Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 1990, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Having regard to the reports and materials prepared by the World Health Organization and other United Nations organizations, organs and bodies in relation to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and, in particular, the note by the Secretary-General to the Commission on the Status of Women on the effects of AIDS on the advancement of women and the Final Document of the International Consultation on AIDS and Human Rights, held at Geneva from 26 to 28 July 1989, |
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| 1990 | ||||
Female circumcision 1990, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Concerned about the continuation of the practice of female circumcision and other traditional practices harmful to the health of women, |
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| 1990 | ||||
Reporting guidelines 1987, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Bearing in mind that the Committee had been faced with difficulties in its work because some initial reports of States parties under article 18 of the Convention did not reflect adequately the information available in the State party concerned in accordance with the guidelines, |
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| 1987 | ||||
Female circumcision 1990, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Noting with satisfaction that Governments, where such practices exist, national women's organizations, non-governmental organizations, specialized agencies, such as the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, as well as the Commission on Human Rights and its Submission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, remain seized of the issue having particularly recognized that such traditional practices as female circumcision have serious health and other consequences for women and children, |
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| 1990 | ||||
Education and public information programme 1987, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Considering that the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered 34 reports from States parties since 1983, |
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| 1987 | ||||
Implementation of article 8 of the Convention 1988, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Having considered the reports of States parties submitted in accordance with article 18 of the Convention, |
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| 1988 | ||||
Statistical data 1989, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Having observed that many of the States parties that present their reports for consideration by the Committee do not provide statistics, |
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| 1989 | ||||
Female circumcision 1990, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Recognizing that women are taking important action themselves to identify and to combat practices that are prejudicial to the health and well-being of women and children, |
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| 1990 | ||||
Resources 1988, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 42/105 and, in particular, paragraph 11, which requests the Secretary-General to strengthen coordination between the United Nations Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the secretariat in relation to the implementation of human rights treaties and servicing treaty bodies, |
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| 1988 | ||||
Equal remuneration for work of equal value 1989, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Recalling International Labour Organization Convention No. 100 concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value, which has been ratified by a large majority of States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, |
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| 1989 | ||||
Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises 1992, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Taking into consideration that a high percentage of women in the States parties work without payment, social security and social benefits in enterprises owned usually by a male member of the family, |
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| 1992 | ||||
Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW 1989, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Considering that 18 December 1989 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, |
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| 1989 | ||||
Reporting by States parties 1986, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Initial reports submitted under article 18 of the Convention should cover the situation up to the date of submission. Thereafter, reports should be submitted at least every four years after the first report was due and should include obstacles encountered in implementing the Convention fully and the measures adopted to overcome such obstacles. |
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| 1986 | ||||
Technical advisory services for reporting obligations 1990, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Recommends to States parties that they should encourage, support and cooperate in projects for technical advisory services, including training seminars, to assist States parties on their request in fulfilling their reporting obligations under article 18 of the Convention. |
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| 1990 | ||||
Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the gross national product 1991, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Bearing in mind article 11 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, |
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| 1991 | ||||
Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the gross national product 1991, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Convinced that such measurement and quantification offers a basis for the formulation of further policies related to the advancement of women, |
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| 1991 | ||||
Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW 1989, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | Non-negotiated soft law | General Comment / Recommendation | Considering further that in those 10 years the Convention has proved to be one of the most effective instruments that the United Nations has adopted to promote equality between the sexes in the societies of its States Members, |
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| 1989 |