The U.N. Women statement (on “Facts & Figures”) linked below claims that, “[t]he work of UN Women will be framed by… the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [CEDAW]…”
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Update: the U.N. Women website now indicates that CEDAW is one of four or so documents guiding their work:
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http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/guiding-documents/
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http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/convention.htm
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Apparently, Saudi Arabia ratified CEDAW with three or so reservations. Here is one of them:
1) “The Kingdom does not consider itself bound by paragraphe 2 of article 9 of the Convention…”
– *** Please note that paragraph 2 of article 9 states, “Parties shall grant women equal rights with men with respect to the nationality of their children.”
What do readers make of this?
In case anyone is interested, here is a link to the 2009 Freedom House Ratings for Saudi Arabia – you can easily find ratings (or country reports) for different years and regions by changing the two drop down menus.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7696
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