Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 103 Advancement of women, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

23 versions · 1980–2016

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/70/131

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2016	A/RES/70/131	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	125	85%Compare
2014	A/RES/68/138	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	131	85%Compare
2012	A/RES/66/131	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	138	8%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/138	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	1,610	68%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/218	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	1,665	84%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

10 reports · 2001–2017

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2017	A/72/93	Status of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/131
2015	A/70/124	Status of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/138
2013	A/68/121	Status of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/131
2011	A/66/99	Status of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/138
2009	A/64/342	Status of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/62/218

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Reservations and Declarations Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties Women's Status Working Groups

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to do so as soon as possible, so that universal ratification of the Convention can be achieved by the year 2000;

Emphasizes the importance of full compliance by States parties with their obligations under the Convention;

Urges States to limit the extent of any reservations they lodge to the Convention, to formulate any such reservations as precisely and as narrowly as possible, to ensure that no reservations are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention or otherwise incompatible with international treaty law, to review their reservations regularly with a view to withdrawing them and to withdraw reservations that are contrary to the object and purpose of the Convention or that are otherwise incompatible with international treaty law;

Invites States parties to the Convention to make all possible efforts to submit their reports on the implementation of the Convention in accordance with article 18 thereof and with the guidelines provided by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and to cooperate fully with the Committee in the presentation of their reports;

Urges States parties to the Convention to take appropriate measures so that acceptance of the amendment to article 20, paragraph 1, of the Convention by a two-thirds majority of States parties can be reached as soon as possible in order for the amendment to enter into force;

Approves the request made by the Committee and supported by the States parties to the Convention for additional meeting time so as to allow the Committee to hold two sessions annually, each of three weeks' duration, preceded by a pre-session working group, for an interim period starting in 1997;

Welcomes the report of the Open-ended Working Group on the Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of the Commission on the Status of Women;⁶

⁶Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1996, Supplement No. 6 (E/1996/26), annex III.

Decides to authorize the Open-ended Working Group to meet for ten working days, in parallel with the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-first session;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the status of the Convention and the implementation of the present resolution.

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