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A Gendered and Rights-Based Review of Vietnamese Legal Documents through the Lens of CEDAW
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 16: Unpaid Women Workers in Rural and Urban
Family Enterprises (1990)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 17: Measurement and Quantification of the
Unremunerated Domestic Activities of Women and their Recognition in the Gross National
Product (1991)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 18: Disabled women (1991)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 19: Violence against women (1992)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 20: Reservations to the Convention (1992)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 21: Equality in Marriage and Family Relations
(1994)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 22: Amending Article 20 of the Convention (1995)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 23: Political and Public Life (1997)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 24: Article 12 of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - Women and Health (1999)
CEDAW General recommendation No. 25, on Article 4, Paragraph 1, of the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, on Temporary Special
Measures (2004)
C. Concluding Comments
Concluding Comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women: Viet Nam. Jan. 17, 2007. CEDAW/C/VNM/CO/6
Concluding Comments of Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women:
Viet Nam. 2001. CEDAW A/56/38
D. CEDAW Reports and related documents
Combined Fifth and Sixth Periodic Report of States Parties: Viet Nam. Consideration of
reports submitted by States parties under Article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. CEDAW/C/VNM/5-6. June 22, 2005 at http:
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/37sess.html
Responses to the List of Issues and Questions for Consideration of the Combined Fifth and
Sixth Report of Viet Nam to the CEDAW Committee, 37th session.
CEDAW/C/VNM/Q/6/Add.1. September 2006 at http:
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/ 37sess.html
Report of the Non-Governmental Organizations regarding the Implementation of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Viet Nam.
2006
“New Law on Gender Equality will Greatly Improved Viet Nam’s Legal Regime for Women’s
Advancement, Anti-Discrimination Committee Told”, Department of Public Information,
New and Media Division, United Nations (UN) New York (17 January 2007) at http:
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/37sess.html
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