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CEDAW Committee makes recommendations on any issue affecting women to which it
believes the States parties should devote more attention.
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CEDAW Committee 47th Session:
In addition to the CEDAW
Committee Recommendation No. 27 on Older Women's Rights, the
Committee adopted General Recommendation No. 28: on Article 2:
"The Committee adopted a detailed general recommendation on Article 2 of the Convention in which it reaffirmed that discrimination of women based on sex and gender was inextricably linked with other factors that affected women, such as race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender identity."
The Committee further emphasized that States
parties were obligated to proclaim their total opposition to all forms of
discrimination against women and that they should pursue their policies in this
regard by all appropriate means and without delay. Where a State party was
facing resource constraints or other obstacles, it had to seek international
cooperation to overcome such difficulties. The Committee finally repeated its
call on States parties to consider withdrawing reservations to the Convention,
in particular those relating to article 2, as soon as possible."
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Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women New York, 18 December
1979
Article
2
States
Parties condemn discrimination against women in all its forms, agree to pursue
by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating
discrimination against women and, to this end, undertake:
(a)
To embody the principle of the equality of men and women in their national
constitutions or other appropriate legislation if not yet incorporated therein
and to ensure, through law and other appropriate means, the practical
realization of this principle;
(b) To adopt appropriate legislative and other measures, including sanctions where appropriate, prohibiting all discrimination against women;
(c) To establish legal protection of the rights of women on an equal basis with men and to ensure through competent national tribunals and other public institutions the effective protection of women against any act of discrimination;
(d) To refrain from engaging in any act or practice of discrimination against women and to ensure that public authorities and institutions shall act in conformity with this obligation;
(e) To take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women by any person, organization or enterprise;
(f) To take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to modify or abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women;
(g) To repeal all national penal provisions which constitute discrimination against women.