Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls 1997, para. 3b
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[Calls upon all States:] To ratify, if they have not yet done so, the relevant human rights treaties, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to respect and fully implement their obligations under the relevant human rights treaties to which they are parties, emphasizing the incompatibility between the continuation of these harmful traditional or customary practices and the obligations they have voluntarily undertaken through the ratification of such international human rights instruments;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Harmful Practices
Health
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
1997
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls (1997), A/RES/52/99, OP 3b.