On 14 July 2017, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) adopted General Recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women, updating General Recommendation 19. With a view to disseminating the content of General Recommendation 35 and discussing how it can be promoted as a tool for accelerated implementation of regional and international obligations to eliminate gender-based violence against women, the Committee held a high-level panel discussion in a public meeting during its 68th session, on 14th November 2017, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
General Recommendation 35 elaborates on the gender-based nature of this form of violence, building on the work of the Committee and other international human rights mechanisms, as well as developments at national, regional and international levels.
Cedaw's general recommendation 35 was inspired by the Istanbul Convention. The chair of the working group on this recommendation, Ms Feride Acar (also President of GREVIO ) introduced the recommendation at the high level panel, presided by Ms Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights and which included Ms Dubravka Simonovic, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequence.
At the invitation of CEDAW, Marceline Naudi first vice-president of GREVIO as well as Simona Lanzoni, second vice-president of GREVIO attended the event.
