E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2 page 75 207 See Mohamed Charfi, “Le droit tunisien de la famille entre l’islam et la modernité”, Revue tunisienne de droit, 1973, p. 11; and Jeanne Ladjili, “Puissance des Agnats, puissance du père. De la famille musulmane à la famille tunisienne”, Revue tunisienne de droit, 1972, p. 25. 208 Tunisian law, for example, allows gifts to be made in favour of a non-Muslim wife up to one third of the husband’s property. Therefore, a non-Muslim wife, although not having the status of heir, would receive an “inheritance” greater than that of a Muslim wife. In Indonesia, many members of the ulema make use of equal gifts in order to circumvent Koranic inheritance rules. See Andrée Feillard (note 114 above), p. 51. 209 See Human Rights Committee, general comment 28. 210 See surah 81, verses 8 and 9. 211 Sati is a practice which probably dates back to the seventh century B.C. In its accepted meaning, it designates the virtuous and devoted wife (pativrata) who immolates herself on her deceased husband’s funeral pyre. In that act there is at the same time the idea of a widow’s guilt over the death of her husband and rejection of widowhood. The practice is believed to have existed also in Peru and Polynesia. See Catherine Weinberger-Thomas, Cendres d’immortalité: la crémation des veuves en Inde, Paris, Le Seuil, 1996; and Albert Samuel (note 14 above), p. 148. See also the website www.msh-paris.fr/red&s/dhdi/txtuniv/memoir2.htm. 212 See report of CEDAW (A/55/38 (Part I), para. 68). See also L’Express, 9 March 2000 (note 187 above). 213 Odon Vallet (note 8 above), p. 140. 214 See the website www.msh-paris.fr/red&s/dhdi/txtuniv/memoir2.htm. 215 According to the Pakistani Human Rights Commission, 560 cases of burning were recorded in 1998-1999. According to a local NGO, over 3,560 women were treated in hospital between 1994 and 1999 following attacks by fire, acid or petrol (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/17, para. 76). 216 See report on traditional practices … (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1998/11, para. 111). An amendment was made to that article of the Criminal Code in 1999 but, rather than totally eliminating grounds for non-imposition of punishment, it replaced them with grounds for mitigation of punishment. See also the website www.rdl.com.lb/3749/enquete.html and the example of Kuwait, Report of the Human Rights Committee (A/55/40, vol. I, para. 458). 217 See E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/17, para. 73. Article 340 states that a man who discovers his wife or a close female relative in an adulterous situation and kills or injures her is granted a reduction in penalty. See also the website www.unog.ch/news/documents/newsfr/CRC0030F.html. 218 E/CN.4/2000/3, chapter V, section C. In Jordan, the courts impose sentences ranging from six months’ to two years’ imprisonment for such offences. See also report on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (E/CN.4/1999/39, para. 74).