UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation No. 12: Violence against Women

According to the General Recommendation adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women requires State parties to act to protect women against violence of any kind occurring within the family, at the workplace or in any other area of social life. Thus, it recommends that State parties should include in their periodic report to the Committee information about legislation in force to protect woman against the incidence of all kinds of violence in everyday life (including sexual violence, abuses in the family and sexual harassment at the workplace), other measures to eradicate this violence, the existence of support services for women who are victims of aggression or abuses, and statistical data on incidence of violence against women.