United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women CEDAW/C/GC/30 Distr.: General 1 November 2013 Original: English Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women General recommendation No. 30 on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations Contents Page I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 II. Scope of the general recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 III. Application of the Convention to conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations . . . 3 A. Territorial and extraterritorial application of the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 B. Application of the Convention to State and non-State actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 C. Complementarity of the Convention and international humanitarian, refugee and criminal law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Convention and the Security Council agenda on women, peace and security . . . . . . . . . . 7 Convention and conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A. Women and conflict prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 B. Women in conflict and post-conflict contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 A. Monitoring and reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 B. Treaty ratification or accession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 D. IV. V. 13-54331 (E) 251113 *1354331*

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