E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2 page 77 232 See Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee on the third periodic report of India (CCPR/C/79/Add. 81). See also report of CEDAW (A/55/38 (Part I), para. 68). 233 Report of the Secretary-General on traditional or customary practices … (A/53/354, paras. 18 and 50). See also report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC/C/15/Add. 73). 234 Report on traditional practices … (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/14, para. 46). 235 See the website www.peacelink.it/anb-bia/nr357/f05.html. 236 See the website www.africaonline.co.ci/AfricaOnline/info/ivs/2867SAV2.htm. 237 See Human Rights Committee, general comment 28, para. 24. 238 See the website www.penelopes.org/pages/beijing/textes/tradit9.htm. 239 See Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, statement by Ms. Natalie Elkaim (HR/SC/99/15). 240 See the historic judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia of 22 February 2001, in which the rape of civilians in time of war was for the first time considered a crime against humanity, Le Monde, 24 February 2001. See, on this subject generally, the study entitled “Racial discrimination and religious discrimination: identification and measures”, prepared by the Special Rapporteur on religious intolerance (A/CONF.189/PC.1/7, paras. 73 ff.). 241 This applies to India, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Serbia. See the website www.penelopes.org/pages/beijing/textes/tradit9.htm. It is also true of Mongolia, Report of the Human Rights Committee (A/55/40, vol. I, para. 323). 242 See the website www.senat.fr/rap/r98-436/r98-43630.html. 243 See report of CEDAW, consideration of the report of Colombia (A/54/38/Rev.1, paras. 381, 385 and 386). 244 Ibid., consideration of the reports of Belize, p. 51, para. 52, and Chile, p. 66, paras. 226 and 227. 245 The wives of the prophet and famous women, including Khadija, Aisha, Umm Sulaym and Asma bint Umays and also her daughter, Fatima, apparently played important roles in economic, social and even political and military life in the building of society and construction of the Muslim State. See Abd Al Halim Abou Chouqqa, Encyclopédie de la femme en Islam, Al Qalam, Paris, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 22 ff. See also Roger Caratini, Mahomet, Criterion, Paris, 1993, pp. 332 ff. 246 See general recommendation No. 23, para. 20. Several States have abolished certain electoral practices stemming from the denigration of women and their inferior status in society. Examples include the elimination of proxy voting, which enabled a husband or father to vote in place of his