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UN General Assembly 62nd Session
Third Committee
Agenda Items
63a - Advancement of Women
63b - Implemention of the Outcome of
the Fourth World Conference on Women
&
the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly
70 - Promotion &
Protection of Human Rights
UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
MS. YAKIN ERTURK
Oral Report of the Special
Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes & Consequences
.... Professor Erturk further elaborated upon "the intersections between
culture and violence against women," which often resulted in categorizing
the problem in a purely cultural realm, diverting attention from the larger
systems of inequality also present....
Interactive Dialogue
....She called upon States to engage
in a cultural negotiation with their communities and populations and to
challenge cultural norms and values that have been used to commit human rights
violations. She highlighted the many positive forms of culture that States
should focus on instead of continuing to promote those which denied women their
human rights.
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Website Link to the Mandate of the
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/women/rapporteur/index.htm
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