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report, a delegation of a State Party is invited to a constructive dialogue with the CEDAW
Committee to present the report, discuss its contents, exchange views on challenges to implementation,
and provide recommendations. The dialogue was held during a CEDAW session in
New York in the past; and, from 2008, will be held in Geneva and New York. In consideration
of the report of States Parties, information - including alternative or shadow reports from NGOs
and reports from specialized agencies - are welcomed by the CEDAW Committee.
III.1.4 CONCLUDING COMMENTS
Concluding Comments are observations and recommendations issued by the CEDAW
Committee after its consideration of State Party reports and the constructive dialogue with a
State Party delegation. They are issued specific to a country and its context. Concluding
Comments were renamed Concluding Observations in 2008.
III.1.5 GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
GRs are authoritative interpretations of the CEDAW Committee on either specific articles of the
treaty or contemporary or emerging issues. They were renamed General Comments in 2008.
The CEDAW Committee presently has issued 25 GRs:
GR 1: Reporting (1986);
GR 2: Guidelines on Reporting (1987);
GR 3: Urges State Parties to adopt education and public information
programmes (1987);
GR 4: Reservations (1987);
GR 5: Temporary Special Measures (1988);
GR 6: Effective National Machinery and Publicity (1988);
GR 7: Resources (1988);
GR 8: Implementation of Article 8 of the Convention (1988);
GR 9: Statistical Data concerning the Situation of Women (1989);
GR 10: Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of CEDAW (1989);
GR 11: Technical Advisory Services for Reporting Obligations (1989);
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GR 12: Violence Against Women (1989);
GR 13: Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1989);
GR 14: Female Circumcision (1990);
GR 15: AIDS (1990);
GR 16: Unpaid Women Workers in Rural and Urban Family Enterprises (1991);
GR 17: Unremunerated Domestic Activities of Women (1991);
GR 18: Disabled Women (1991);
GR 19: Violence Against Women (1992);
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