E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2 page 66 hommes est reconnu un droit de regard sur les femmes; ce droit est fondé sur les avantages que Dieu a conféré aux hommes et il fait pendant aux charges de famille qui leur sont imposées …. Pour celles dont vous craignez l’inconduite, vous pourrez les blâmer, les éloignez de votre couche, les corriger même, si besoin est]. With regard to the contracting of debts, surah 2, verse 282, states: “Call to witness from among your men two witnesses and, if two men are not at hand, then a man and two women of such as you approve as witnesses, so that, if one of the women errs, the other may remind her” [Faites-en témoigner par deux témoins d’entre vos hommes; et à défaut de deux hommes, un homme et deux femmes d’entre ceux que vous agréez comme témoins, en sorte que si l’une d’elles s’égare, l’autre puisse lui rappeler] (French translation cited by Mohamed Talbi in Jeune Afrique/L’Intelligent, No. 2082, 5-11 December 2000, pp. 46 and 47, and the author’s conflicting interpretation). 95 In some Christian tradition, man was created in the image of God and woman in the image of man. See Albert Samuel, op. cit. (note 14 above), pp. 65, 123, 153 ff. and 190 ff.; and Odon Vallet, op. cit. (note 8 above), pp. 140 ff. 96 See the well-documented article on the subject by Régine Azria, “La femme dans la tradition et la modernité juive”, Archives des sciences sociales et des religions, July-September 1996, No. 95, pp. 117 to 132. See also Samuel, op. cit., pp. 58 ff. 97 Report of the Working Group on Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-second session (E/CN.4/1986/42, para. 143). 98 See Jean-Claude Kamdem, “Personne, culture et droits en Afrique noire”, in Droits fondamentaux et spécificités culturelles, op. cit. (note 18 above), p. 100. 99 See report of CEDAW, consideration of the report of China (A/54/38/Rev.1, para. 299). 100 See Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (note 79 above), para. 259. 101 In the Republic of Korea, which appears to be one of the most persistent examples of son preference in the world, couples with two sons are far more likely to use family planning than those who have only two daughters. See Kathleen Newland, Femmes et société, Denoël/Gonthier, Paris, p. 153. 102 Newland, op. cit. (note 101 above), pp. 153 and 154. See Report of the Human Rights Committee (A/55/40, vol. I, para. 135). 103 Preliminary report of the Special Rapporteur on traditional practices … (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/6, para. 24). 104 105 Ibid., para. 26. Islam opposed the practice of w’ad or female infanticide, which had been prevalent in preIslamic Arabia. See surah 81, verses 8 and 9: “When the girl child who was buried alive is asked for what sin she was slain”. See, in the same vein, surah 6, verse 151, and surah 17, verse 31.