Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 33
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- Several States, in the name of culture or religion, have entered reservations to article 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which requires gender equality in marriage and the family. Withdrawal of reservations to article 16 of the Convention, and also to articles 2 and 5, represents good practice and a vital step towards the establishment of an effective legal framework to protect the rights of women in the family and in cultural life. Morocco and Tunisia have thus recently withdrawn reservations to the Convention, including to article 16. The Working Group shares the opinion of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to the effect that reservations to articles 2 and 16 are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention, and it reiterates the importance of States' withdrawing their reservations to these articles, and to article 5, so as to ensure gender equality in cultural and family life. It is the responsibility of States to respect their international commitments and the clear choices they have made regarding the primacy of international legal standards on gender equality over national secular, religious or customary legal standards.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- WG Discrimination Against Women, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/29/40, para. 33.
- Paragraph number
- 33
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