A Convenção sobre a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação contra a Mulher (CEDAW): Um estudo das denúncias ao Comitê (2006–2024) frente à hipervulnerabilidade feminina.

Abstract

This paper investigates how the CEDAW Committee has dealt with the heightened vulnerability of women exposed to multiple forms of violence and exclusion, based on an analysis of all complaints made to the Committee between 2006 and 2024. In this context, the study is guided by the following questions: What are the types of gender-based violence reported to the Committee? What is the profile of the countries with the most complaints? And what were the procedures and decisions taken by the Committee in these cases? These questions add up to an analytical horizon interested in understanding the effectiveness of CEDAW in building good practices for protecting women. Thus, after presenting the challenges of female hypervulnerability and investigating the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) with a focus on the actions of its Committee, it is concluded that, despite conceptual advances, CEDAW still focuses mainly on physical and sexual violence, leaving other intersecting forms of violation, such as economic and institutional, in the background. It is also observed that the countries most frequently reported are, in general, developed countries, which reveals CEDAW's limitations in reaching more precarious contexts. The exploratory research adopts a qualitative and quantitative approach, documentary analysis with systematization and categorization of data to evaluate the Committee's effectiveness and proposes to reflect on its responses to female hypervulnerabilities.