Introduction

Mandate

Membership

Meetings of State parties/Elections

Upcoming elections for all treaty bodies

Convention

Optional Protocol

Rules of procedure

Proposed amendment to art. 20(1)

Working methods

Annual reports

General Recommendations

Chairperson’s and other statements

Committee’s contribution to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)

Guidelines for reporting to the Committee

Guidance note for States parties for the preparation of periodic reports under article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals

Common Core Document, initial and periodic reports

Simplified reporting procedure

Documentation tools on reporting to the UN Treaty Bodies

Key documents related to reporting cycles

States parties reports

List of issues (LOIs)

Replies to LOIs

Concluding observations

Follow-up to concluding observations procedure

Complaints Procedure

General information

Model complaint form (Word): English | Français | русский | Español

Guidance note to the complaint form (Word): English | Français | русский | Español

Working methods

Recent jurisprudence

Jurisprudence database

Statistical Survey on individual complaints

Table of pending cases

Follow-up to views

General information

Follow-up reports

Inquiry procedure

Inquiry procedure

Reprisals

Reprisals Guidelines

General Discussion Days

Call for comments on draft General Recommendations

CEDAW 40th anniversary

Beijing + 25

Beijing +25 Women as leading forces of change

25 Years in Review of the Beijing Platform of Action – Contributions of the Platform of independent expert mechanisms on the elimination of discrimination and violence against women (EDVAW Platform) towards its implementation

Paper on the cooperation between the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and National Human Rights Institutions

Information for Civil Society Organisations and National Human Rights Institutions

Accreditation

Secretariat contact details

How to direct complaints to the treaty bodies

Press Releases

Feature stories

CEDAW in your daily life

Sessions

Calendar of country reviews by treaty bodies

Deadlines for the submission of documentation

Common core documents

Treaty body database

Universal human rights index

UN Secretary General's database on violence against women

Working Group on Discrimination against Women

Special Rapporteur on violence against women

Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons

Technical cooperation

Commission on the Status of Women

UN Women

Women Watch

Treaty Body Webcast

IDA
Inter-Parliamentary Union
International Women's Rights Action Watch (Asia Pacific)
International Women's Rights Action Watch
Women's United Nations Report Network (WUNRN)
Musawah
Optional Protocol to CEDAW
ESCR-Net

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