Keywords
women
gender
human rights
treaty
protocol
facultative protocol
reserve
interpretative declaration
legislative frame
national policy
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
CEDAW
CEDAW Committee
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Abstract
...facing the need to support the Colombian government decision on ratifying the Facultative Protocol this article proposes the following arguments... The ratification of the Facultative Protocol of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) –Act 51 of 1981 of the Republic of Colombia–, without any unilateral declaration, is very coherent with the Colombian gender policy and with the policy of deference and protection of human rights, even more in the internal armed conflict context that we are facing currently... These are some of the arguments: the Colombian domestic and international juridical frame of human rights, the mandates of the Constitution, the case law development in the Constitutional Court, the public policies on gender, the rule proceedings before UN and OAS human rights commissions, international law theory on reservations and declarations...
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