E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2
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CONTENTS
Paragraphs
Introduction ......................................................................................................
I.
1 - 40
5
A.
Attempted definition of religion ....................................................
6 - 12
6
B.
Religion and culture.......................................................................
13 - 24
7
C.
Universality of women’s rights and cultural diversity ..................
25 - 40
9
LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE
LIGHT OF RELIGION AND TRADITIONS ........................................
41 - 87
12
A.
42 - 56
13
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:
contribution of the Human Rights Committee .....................
46 - 51
13
Instruments relating to slavery .............................................
52 - 56
15
Contribution of specific instruments .............................................
57 - 79
16
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women............................................
57 - 72
16
2.
Convention on the Rights of the Child.................................
73 - 74
21
3.
Other specific texts, instruments and mechanisms ..............
75 - 79
21
Regional experience ......................................................................
80 - 87
23
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the
Child .....................................................................................
81 - 82
23
Draft protocol to the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.............
83 - 87
23
FACTUAL ASPECTS OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE
LIGHT OF RELIGION AND TRADITIONS ........................................
88 - 188
25
A.
Persistence of cultural stereotypes detrimental to women.............
91 - 102
25
1.
General considerations .........................................................
91 - 93
25
2.
Son preference......................................................................
94 - 96
26
Inadequacy of general universal instruments ................................
1.
2.
B.
1.
C.
1.
2.
II.
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