Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 28
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Several organizations stressed that it was important to situate analysis on violence against women within a broader gender equality context across the range of gender-based discrimination, and that therefore the Convention was still framing the issue on the basis of the best interpretative approach. According to those sources, it was a priority to focus on the structural issues — personal status law, women’s economic marginalization and inequality — that permitted violence against women to persist, and it would be inconsistent to address them in isolation from gender discrimination more generally.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences