Submission to the CEDAW Committee’s Call for Comments on the Draft General Recommendation on Gender Stereotypes

Africa
Issue: Human Rights, Women's Human Rights
Document Type: Advocacy | Guidance
Date: 2026

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted and supported two additional submissions to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on draft General Recommendation No. 41 on dismantling gender stereotypes and the unequal power relations that sustain them.

The three submissions are available below.

Download: ICJ submission on Legal experts’ opinion on draft GR 41 on gender stereotyping

Download: Submission of the International Commission of Jurists to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Download: Joint Submission from the Seinoli Legal Centre and the People’s Matrix with specific reference to gender stereotypes in Lesotho May 2026

A full list of all the submissions made is available here:  Call for Comments – Draft general recommendation on gender stereotypes.

 

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