Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation
10, Tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against women (Eighth session, 1989), U.N.
Doc. A/44/38 at 74 (1990), reprinted in Compilation of General Comments and
General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.6
at 235 (2003).
Tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
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,
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,
Recalling general recommendation No. 6 (seventh session 1988) on
effective national machinery and publicity,
Recommends that, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the
adoption of the Convention, the States parties should consider:
1. Undertaking programmes including conferences and seminars to
publicize the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women in the main languages of and providing information on the
Convention in their respective countries;
2. Inviting their national women's organizations to cooperate in the
publicity campaigns regarding the Convention and its implementation and
encouraging non-governmental organizations at the national, regional and
international levels to publicize the Convention and its implementation;
3. Encouraging action to ensure the full implementation of the
principles of the Convention, and in particular article 8, which relates to
the participation of women at all levels of activity of the United Nations and
the United Nations system;
4. Requesting the Secretary-General to commemorate the tenth
anniversary of the adoption of the Convention by publishing and disseminating,
in cooperation with the specialized agencies, printed and other materials
regarding the Convention and its implementation in all official languages of
the United Nations, preparing television documentaries about the Convention,
and making the necessary resources available to the Division for the
Advancement of Women, Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs
of the United Nations Office at Vienna, to prepare an analysis of the
information provided by States parties in order to update and publish the
report of the Committee (A/CONF.116/13), which was first published for the
World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations
Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, held at Nairobi in 1985.
* Contained in document A/44/38.
