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Gender Excerpts:
VI. Conclusions &
Recommendations
54. The Special Rapporteur is concerned about the vulnerable
situation of women in Tajik society, which is also partly influenced by
traditional or perceived religious factors.....
The Government should be encouraged
to review legal and administrative regulations in order to prevent religious
unions from taking place without verification that a civil marriage has been
registered first.
The Government should also
strengthen its efforts to eliminate the causes that lead to polygamous unions
and develop strategies targeted at parents and religious leaders to prevent
such unions. One of the possible measures to initiate change in the widely
accepted subordination of women and stereotypical roles applied to both sexes
could be awareness-raising and educational campaigns that address, inter alia,
religious and community leaders.
Most importantly, women themselves
have to be empowered.
With regard to the headscarf issue,
the Special Rapporteur would like to refer to the section on religious symbols
in her 2006 report to the Commission on Human Rights in which she emphasized
that the fundamental objective should be to safeguard both the positive freedom
of religion or belief as manifested in observance and practice by foluntarily
wearing or displaying religious symbols and the negative freedom from being
forced to wear or display religious symbols.
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