COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

Draft update of General Recommendation No. 19 (1992) on gender based violence against women

Call for comments

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is currently updating its General Recommendation No. 19: "25 years of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 19 (1992): Accelerating efforts on gender based violence against women".

At its sixty-fourth session, the Committee decided to invite all interested parties to submit comments in writing on the "Draft update of General Recommendation No. 19" (to be indicated in the subject title) to the following email address: cedaw@ohchr.org

After a thorough and due consideration of comments provided, only the Committee will decide on the contents of the final version of the update of General Recommendation No. 19.

All submissions :

• Must be submitted in one of the working languages of the Committee - English, French or Spanish; 
• Must be submitted in WORD format;
• Must be submitted in one single document indicating precisely the paragraphs on which comments are being made;
• Must not exceed a maximum of 5 pages for all comments made;
• Should be written in a concise and focused style;
• Will not be translated;
• Will be posted on the CEDAW web page devoted to the draft update of General Recommendation No. 19.

Deadline:

Comments must be submitted by 30 September 2016.

To facilitate the work of the Committee, this deadline will be strictly applied. No submissions received after this deadline will be considered or posted on the web page. 

The draft update of General Recommendation No. 19 on gender based violence against women can be found here

Submissions received:

NGOS

• AARP joint submission
• AIWNTebtebba
• Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
• Amnesty International
• Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of women ESE
• Association for Progressive Communications joint submission
• British Autism advocate
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
• CLADEM
• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
• Corporación Humanas Chile joint submission
• Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)
• Equality Now joint submission
• German Network of Women Lesbian and Girls with Disabilities
• Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
• Global Network of Sex Work Projects
• Global Rights for Women
• Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida, AC - E | S
• Human Rights in Democracy Centre, Albania
• Human Rights Watch
• International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion
• International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC)
• International Women's Health Coalition
• Ipas
• IPPF RFSU joint submission
• IT for change
• IWRAW-Asia Pacific
• Japanese Association of International Women’s Rights (JAIWR)
• Joint Lebanese NGO submission
• KARAT Coalition
• Legal Advice for Women
• Marie Stopes International
• MenEngage Alliance
• Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (MDAC)
• Movimiento de mujeres indígenas Tz´ununija´
• National Council of Women of New Zealand
• Nazra for Feminist Studies
• New Woman Foundation, Feminist Organization
• New Zealand Prostitute’s Collective (NZPC)
• NGO Coalition (Kyrgyzstan)
• Partners for Law in Development
• Philippine Alliance of Women with Disabilities
• Plan International
• Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants
• PROMSEX - Peru
• Red Chilena contra la Violencia hacia las Mujeres
• REDRESS
• Sanctuary for Families
• The Carter Center
• The Executive Committee for NGO Forum on CEDAW-Turkey
• The Swedish Women's Lobby
• Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
• WAVE
• Women and Realities of Disability Society (Kenya)
• Women and Work Research Group, Business School, University of Sidney
• Women Enabled International
• Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways’
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Women's Legal and Human Rights Bureau
• Women's Link Worldwide
• Women’s Refugee Commission
• Women’s Rights in Society

Other stakeholders:

• Australian Government
• Australian Human Rights Commission
• Charles Widger School of Law
• Commission on Human Rights Philippines
• Defensoría General de la Nación Argentina
• GREVIO
• International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
• Magistrada del Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación de México
• Ms. Sarah McMains
• Ms. Tina Minkowitz, JD - Annex
• Municipal Department for the Promotion and Coordination of Women’s Issues, Vienna-Austria
• New Zealand Human Rights Commission
• School of Law, SOAS, University of London
• The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic
• UNCT Azerbaijan
• UN Women Multi-Country Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka
• UNICEF
• Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice