Gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19 2017, para. 29c (i)
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- [The Committee recommends that States parties implement the following legislative measures:] Repeal, including in customary, religious and indigenous laws, all legal provisions that are discriminatory against women and thereby enshrine, encourage, facilitate, justify or tolerate any form of gender-based violence. In particular, repeal the following: Provisions that allow, tolerate or condone forms of gender-based violence against women, including child or forced marriage and other harmful practices, provisions allowing medical procedures to be performed on women with disabilities without their informed consent and provisions that criminalize abortion, being lesbian, bisexual or transgender, women in prostitution and adultery, or any other criminal provisions that affect women disproportionally, including those resulting in the discriminatory application of the death penalty to women;
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- LGBTQI+
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2017
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- General legislative measures
- Paragraph number
- 29c (i)
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