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" States should condemn violence against women and should not invoke any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination. States should pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of... "
Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice - Page 115
2001 - 364 pages
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Violence Against Women in South Africa: The State Response to Domestic ...

Binaifer Nowrojee - 1995 - 144 pages
...be subjected to torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. '" Article 4 States should condemn violence against women and should...their obligations with respect to its elimination. States should pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating violence against...
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Human Rights and Disabled Persons: Essays and Relevant Human Rights Instruments

Theresia Degener, Yolan Koster-Dreese - 1995 - 778 pages
...to be subjected to torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 4 States should condemn violence against women and should...their obligations with respect to its elimination. States should pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating violence against...
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A Thematic Guide to Documents on the Human Rights of Women: Global and ...

Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Katarina Tomaševski - 1995 - 456 pages
...to be subjected to torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 4 States should condemn violence against women and should...their obligations with respect to its elimination. States should pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating violence against...
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Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration

DIANE Publishing Company - 1996 - 181 pages
...Actions to be taken 124. By Governments: (a) Condemn violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to...their obligations with respect to its elimination as set out in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women; (b) Refrain from engaging...
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Beijing and Beyond: Toward the Twenty-first Century of Women : Includes the ...

Florence Howe - 1996 - 484 pages
...Actions to be taken 124. By Governments: (a) Condemn violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to...their obligations with respect to its elimination as set out in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women; (b) Refrain from engaging...
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Advancing the Human Rights of Women: Using International Human Rights ...

Andrew Byrnes, Jane Frances Connors, Lum Bik - 1997 - 208 pages
...development and peace..." 20 Role of the judiciary Article 4 of the Violence Declaration provides: "States should condemn violence against women and...their obligations with respect to its elimination. States should pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating violence against...
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Reproductive Freedom: In the Context of International Human Rights and ...

Maja Kirilova Eriksson - 2000 - 608 pages
...Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the sense that states are urged not to "invoke any custom. tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect" to the elimination of violence against women. 11 In a number of Moslem countries reporting rape. eg. without...
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Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of ...

Craig M. Scott - 2001 - 776 pages
...by consensus by the General Assembly on 20 December 1993 as Resolution 48/104. Article 4 provides: "States should condemn violence against women and...their obligations with respect to its elimination. States should pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating violence against...
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Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives

Jane K. Cowan, Marie-B鈋n鈋dicte·Dembour, Richard A. Wilson - 2001 - 276 pages
...The 1992 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women issued by the CEDAW committee says that: 'States should condemn violence against women, and should not invoke any custom, tradition, or religion or other consideration to avoid their obligation with respect to its elimination.'3 Discussions...
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Varieties of Ethical Reflection: New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context

Michael Barnhart - 2002 - 364 pages
...118). Paragraph 124 requires that governments "condemn violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to...their obligations with respect to its elimination as set out in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women" (para 1 24(a)). Again,...
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