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A Gendered and Rights-Based Review of Vietnamese Legal Documents through the Lens of CEDAW
ARTICLE 3
States Parties shall take in all fields, in particular in the political, social, economic and cultural
fields, all appropriate measures, including legislation, to ensure the full development
and advancement of women, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the exercise and enjoyment
of human rights and fundamental freedoms on a basis of equality with men.
V.1.1.2 General Recommendations
The following excerpts from GRs are relevant to Articles 1-3 of CEDAW:
GR 6: Effective National Machinery and Publicity
Recommends that States parties:
Paragraph 1
Establish and/or strengthen effective national machinery, institutions and procedures, at
a high level of Government, and with adequate resources, commitment and authority to:
(a) advise on the impact on women of all government policies; (b) monitor the situation
of women comprehensively; (c) help formulate new policies and effectively carry out
strategies and measures to eliminate discrimination;
Paragraph 2
Take appropriate steps to ensure the dissemination of the Convention, the reports of the
States Parties under article 18 and the reports of the Committee in the language of the
State concerned;
GR 9: Statistical Data concerning Situation of Women
Recommends that States parties should make every effort to ensure that their national
statistical services responsible for planning national censuses and other social and economic
surveys formulate their questionnaires in such a way that data can be disaggregated
according to gender, with regard to both absolute numbers and percentages, so
that interested users can easily obtain information on the situation of women in the particular
sector in which they are interested.
GR 10: Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of CEDAW
Recommends that … the States parties should consider:
Paragraph 1
Undertaking the programmes including conferences and seminars to publicize [CEDAW]
in the main languages of and providing information on the Convention in their respective
countries.
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GR 12: Violence Against Women
Recommends to the States parties that they should include in their periodic reports to
the Committee information about:
1. The legislation in force to protect women against incidence of all kinds of violence in
every day life (including sexual violence, abuses in the family, sexual harassment in the
workplace, etc.);
General undertakings to eliminate discrimination and ensure equality (Articles 1-3 of CEDAW)