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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises 1992, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Affirming that unpaid work constitutes a form of women's exploitation that is contrary to the Convention, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1992 | ||
Technical advisory services for reporting obligations 1990, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind that, as at 3 March 1989, 96 States had ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1990 | ||
Violence against women 1989, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Considering that articles 2, 5, 11, 12 and 16 of the Convention require the States parties to act to protect women against violence of any kind occurring within the family, at the workplace or in any other area of social life, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1989 | ||
Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW 1989, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1989 | ||
Political and public life 1997, para. (c) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [States parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the political and public life of the country and, in particular, shall ensure to women, on equal terms with men, the right:] To participate in non-governmental organizations and associations concerned with the public and political life of the country. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1997 | ||
Political and public life 1997, para. (b) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [States parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the political and public life of the country and, in particular, shall ensure to women, on equal terms with men, the right:] To participate in the formulation of government policy and the implementation thereof and to hold public office and perform all public functions at all levels of government; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1997 | ||
Political and public life 1997, para. (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [States parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the political and public life of the country and, in particular, shall ensure to women, on equal terms with men, the right:] To vote in all elections and public referendums and to be eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1997 | ||
Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises 1992, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that the reports presented to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women generally do not refer to the problem of unpaid women workers of family enterprises, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1992 | ||
Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises 1992, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1992 | ||
Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises 1992, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind articles 2 (c) and 11 (c), (d) and (e) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and general recommendation No. 9 (Eighth session, 1989) on statistical data concerning the situation of women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1992 | ||
Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the gross national product 1991, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting the discussions of the Statistical Commission, at its twenty-first session, on the current revision of the System of National Accounts and the development of statistics on women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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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 | Convinced that such measurement and quantification offers a basis for the formulation of further policies related to the advancement of women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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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. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Affirming that the measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women, which contribute to development in each country, will help to reveal the de facto economic role of women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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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. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling paragraph 120 of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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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. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind article 11 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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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. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that the World Health Organization has announced that the theme of World Aids Day, 1 December 1990, will be "Women and Aids", | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1990 | ||
Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 1990, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Having considered information brought to its attention on the potential effects of both the global pandemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and strategies to control it on the exercise of the rights of women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1990 | ||
Equal remuneration for work of equal value 1989, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1989 | ||
Temporary special measures 1988, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note that the reports, the introductory remarks and the replies by States parties reveal that while significant progress has been achieved in regard to repealing or modifying discriminatory laws, there is still a need for action to be taken to implement fully the Convention by introducing measures to promote de facto equality between men and women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1988 | ||
Education and public information programme 1987, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges all States parties effectively to adopt education and public information programmes, which will help eliminate prejudices and current practices that hinder the full operation of the principle of the social equality of women. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1987 | ||
Education and public information programme 1987, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further considering that, although the reports have come from States with different levels of development, they present features in varying degrees showing the existence of stereotyped conceptions of women, owing to sociocultural factors, that perpetuate discrimination based on sex and hinder the implementation of article 5 of the Convention, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1987 | ||
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 | 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, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1990 | ||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Affirming its support for the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982), | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1991 | ||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling paragraph 296 of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, in which disabled women are considered as a vulnerable group under the heading "areas of special concern", | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1991 | ||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Concerned about the situation of disabled women, who suffer from a double discrimination linked to their special living conditions, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1991 | ||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Having considered more than 60 periodic reports of States parties, and having recognized that they provide scarce information on disabled women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1991 | ||
Disabled Women 1991, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking into consideration particularly article 3 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1991 | ||
Female circumcision 1990, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Convinced that the important action that is being taken by women and by all interested groups needs to be supported and encouraged by Governments, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1990 | ||
Female circumcision 1990, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1990 | ||
Female circumcision 1990, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1990 |