United Nations
CEDAW/C/GC/31/Rev.1–CRC/C/GC/18/Rev.1
Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women
Distr.: General
8 May 2019
Original: English
Convention on the Rights of
the Child
Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general
comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
(2019) on harmful practices*
* The joint general recommendation/general comment on harmful practices was initially adopted in
2014. It was subsequently revised by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women at its seventy-second session and by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its eightieth
session.
GE.19-07611(E)