[Actions to be taken by Governments:] Develop and implement national legislation and policies prohibiting harmful customary or traditional practices that are violations of women's and girls' human rights and obstacles to the full enjoyment by women and girls of their human rights and fundamental freedoms;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
1998
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CSW Agreed Conclusions, Violence against women (1998), D.