WUNRN
IWRAW Asia Pacific has been
conducting a brief mapping study on efforts to remove reservations to CEDAW and
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We are very grateful for any
information you can supply on this matter. If you have in the past activated
strategies on removal of reservations, or are currently working on this, we
would welcome your information. Additionally, if you already have publications,
papers or reports that have captured this information we would be grateful for
the references or for these to be sent to us in an email attachment as well.
Please reply by 15 February 2008.
IWRAW Asia Pacific - iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org
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FRENCH and SPANISH Questionnaires
available from:
IWRAW Asia Pacific - iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org
Questionnaire - Attached
Removal of Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
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Further explanation on CEDAW Reservations
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/reservations.htm
Reservations to CEDAW |
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The Convention permits ratification subject to reservations, provided that the reservations are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention. Some States parties that enter reservations to the Convention do not enter reservations to analogous provisions in other human rights treaties. A number of States enter reservations to particular articles on the ground that national law, tradition, religion or culture are not congruent with Convention principles, and purport to justify the reservation on that basis. Some States enter a reservation to article 2, although their national constitutions or laws prohibit discrimination. There is therefore an inherent conflict between the provisions of the State's constitution and its reservation to the Convention. Some reservations are drawn so widely that their effect cannot be limited to specific provisions in the Convention. For specific reservations by country, click here. _______________________________________________________________ UN Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/ratification/11.htm#reservations Scroll down for Country Reservations.
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