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Attached is
the ALGERIA Universal Periodic Review Working Group Report.
Gender Component Excerpts of
II. CONCLUSIONS AND/OR
RECOMMENDATIONS
4. That the State strengthen its
efforts to protect women's rights, including by addressing cultural and
social barriers, as well as legal ones; recommends that Algeria cooperate
with special proceedures mandate holders; recommends that steps be taken to
guarantee the rights of detainees, including immediate access to a lawyer,
information to families on detentions and ensuring that
judicial authorities are informed on all
detentions.
7. That Algeria continue
and strengthen its efforts in the field of economic, social and cultural rights,
in particular in the field of health.
13. That Algeria pursue its
efforts in the area of the right to education.
14. That Algeria take steps to
adopt a legal framework to protect children from trafficking and to define
trafficking as a criminal offence under domestic law; recommends that
Algeria integrate the gender perspective in the follow-up process to the
UPR.
15. That Algeria take measures
for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading
treatment; recommends the review of domestic legislation to criminalize
domestic violence.
17. That Algeria take
initiatives to strengthen gender mainstreaming and women's rights. It also
recommended that the State pursue its efforts to combat poverty.
10.......Recommends that Algeria
consider withdrawing its reservation to Article 2 of CEDAW
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Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Article 2
States Parties condemn
discrimination against women in all its forms, agree to pursue by all
appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating discrimination
against women and, to this end, undertake:
(a) To embody the principle of
the equality of men and women in their national constitutions or other
appropriate legislation if not yet incorporated therein and to ensure,
through law and other appropriate means, the practical realization of this
principle;
(b) To
adopt appropriate legislative and other measures, including sanctions where
appropriate, prohibiting all discrimination against women;
(c) To
establish legal protection of the rights of women on an equal basis with
men and to ensure through competent national tribunals and other public institutions
the effective protection of women against any act of discrimination;
(d) To
refrain from engaging in any act or practice of discrimination against
women and to ensure that public authorities and institutions shall act in
conformity with this obligation;
(e) To
take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women by
any person, organization or enterprise;
(f) To
take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to modify or abolish
existing laws, regulations, customs and practices which constitute
discrimination against women;
(g) To
repeal all national penal provisions which constitute discrimination
against women.
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Algeria17
Reservations:
Article
2:
The
Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria declares that it
is prepared to apply the provisions of this article on condition that they
do not conflict with the provisions of the Algerian Family Code.
Article
9, paragraph 2:
The
Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria wishes to express
its reservations concerning the provisions of article 9, paragraph 2, which
are incompatible with the provisions of the Algerian Nationality code and
the Algerian Family Code.
The
Algerian Nationality code allows a child to take the nationality of the
mother only when:
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the father is either unknown or stateless;
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the child is born in Algeria to an Algerian mother and a foreign father who
was born in Algeria;
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moreover, a child born in Algeria to an Algerian mother and a foreign
father who was not born on Algerian territory may, under article 26 of the
Algerian Nationality Code, acquire the nationality of the mother providing
the Ministry of Justice does not object.
Article
41 of the Algerian Family Code states that a child is affiliated to its
father through legal marriage.
Article
43 of that Code states that `the child is affiliated to its father if it is
born in the 10 months following the date of separation or death'.
Article
15, paragraph 4:
The
Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria declares that the
provisions of article 15, paragraph 4, concerning the right of women to
choose their residence and domicile should not be interpreted in such a
manner as to contradict the provisions of chapter 4 (art. 37) of the
Algerian Family Code.
Article
16:
The
Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria declares that the
provisions of article 16 concerning equal rights for men and women in all
matters relating to marriage, both during marriage and at its dissolution,
should not contradict the provisions of the Algerian Family Code.
Article
29:
The
Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria does not consider
itself bound by article 29, paragraph 1, which states that any dispute
between two or more Parties concerning the interpretation or application of
the Convention which is not settled by negotiation shall, at the request of
one of them, be submitted to arbitration or to the International Court of
Justice.
The
Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria holds that no
such dispute can be submitted to arbitration or to the Court of
International Justice except with the consent of all the parties to the
dispute.
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