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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 46
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- Stoning is a method of capital punishment primarily used for crimes of adultery and other related offences linked to honour, of which women are disproportionately found guilty. This has resulted in 23 joint communications by mandate holders sent between 2004 and 2011, in respect of more than 30 women sentenced to death by stoning. Other communications to governments relate to honour crimes committed by family members or to the action/inaction of the State with regard to flogging or death by hanging of women for suspected premarital sex, for adultery, for failing to prove rape, and for acts deemed incompatible with chastity.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 77
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- The legal basis for the protection of the family unit can be found in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 23 (1) of which provides: "The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State." In addition, article 17 (1) states that no person "shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence". A fundamental premise with respect to the right to maintain contact with the world outside of prison is that, like free persons, those deprived of their liberty enjoy all the human rights guaranteed by international law, subject only to those restrictions that are an unavoidable consequence of the confinement.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 2013
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- Other
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