Search results for: “cedaw”
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Anglo-Muhammadan Law
Anglo-Muhammadan Law Definition of Anglo-Muhammadan Law Anglo-Muhammadan Law, applied in British colonial courts in India, it included criminal and civil law and was based on an interpretation of Islamic texts and practices. A comprehensive penal code ( 1860 ) ended its criminal application, but it continued to be applied in personal status law until the…
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Muslim Marriage
Muslim Marriage Note: The information is mostly drawn from two publications which are based on research by local legal experts and activists in the Muslim community: Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world, and Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family. Written Marriage Contracts & Registration…
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Rural Women
Rural Women in the CEDAW Article 14 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) stipulates, in relation to Rural Women, that all countries are required to pay special attention to the situation of rural women. They should ensure rural women's […]
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Sex Discrimination
The Legal History of Sex Discrimination This section provides an overview of Sex Discrimination. Summary of the First articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women The articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination […]
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Sex Discrimination
The Legal History of Sex Discrimination This section provides an overview of Sex Discrimination. Summary of the First articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women The articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination […]
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UN Women
UN Women in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to UN Women: On June 25, 2013, Teri Robl, U.S. Deputy Representative to ECOSOC, addressed the United Nations Women Executive Board in New York. Ms. Robl's remarks are excerpted below and are available at (link […]
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Equality
Equality Before the Law in the CEDAW Article 15: of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) stipulates, in relation to Equality Before the Law, that all countries are required to ensure that women are given equality before the law. In particular, […]
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Equality
Equality Before the Law in the CEDAW Article 15: of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) stipulates, in relation to Equality Before the Law, that all countries are required to ensure that women are given equality before the law. In particular, […]
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1979
Signification of Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1979 (CEDAW) A multilateral agreement recognising the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of women. It was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 18 December 1979 […]
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Special Measures
Temporary Special Measures in Election Law Policies adopted and implemented often to increase women's access to the political sphere. These tackle the structural barriers that women face in socalled 'malestream' or male-dominated electoral politics, thereby leveling the playing […]
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Public Life
Public and Political Life in the CEDAW Article 7: of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) stipulates, in relation to Public and Political Life, that all countries are required to eliminate discrimination in public and political life, and […]