All are equal before the law and are
entitled without any discrimination to equal
protection of the law.
Article 7
Men and women of full age...are
entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during
marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be
entered into only with free and full consent of the
intending spouses.
Article 16.1, 2
Everyone, without any discrimination,
has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Article 23.2
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About 100 million women are
"missing" from today's world population. Some
of them were killed by their parents, because they were
girls rather than boys. Some died of malnutrition and
lack of medical care, because girls and women are often
the last to receive a family's or community's scarce
resources. Some were victims of domestic violence or of
soldiers' indiscriminate killing. Get more background information .
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Act Now:
Request and Read
Review the
report, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights," or
examine a Muslim woman’s struggle to maintain
integrity in the face of limited social options.
Act Locally
Help secure U.S.
ratification of the Convention to Eliminate
Discrimination Against Women by asking your two U.S.
Senators for their active support.
Act Nationally or Internationally
Circulate a
petition calling on the Taliban authorities in
Afghanistan to stop subjecting Women to severe
discrimination in virtually every aspect of their lives.
Grab a Partner
Help the Rape,
Abuse & Incest National Network to prevent assaults
and assist survivors of domestic violence, which shatters
the lives of women and girls.
Raise Your Voice
Insure that Irene
Fernandez can continue to publicize the severe human
rights abuses suffered by migrant women in Malaysian
detention centers.
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