Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls 1997, para. 1h
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[Recalling:] Article 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which provides that States parties shall take all appropriate measures to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices that are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women, as reiterated in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Governance & Rule of Law
Health
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Girls
Men
Women
Year
1997
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls (1997), A/RES/52/99, PP 1h.