Rabat Appeal for the Regional Campaign Equality without Reservation

Despite recent advancements in the women's movement in many Arab countries, flagrant discrimination and violence continue to be perpetrated against women in both the public and private spheres throughout the region.

In June 2006 human and women's rights organizations from throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region came to together in Rabat, Morocco to launch the "Rabat Appeal for the Regional Campaign Equality without Reservation."

The campaign calls for the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) by Qatar, Somalia, and Sudan.

Other Arab States have already ratified the treaty, though many with significant reservations to core provisions of the Convention, as a result of which the campaign also calls on governments to withdraw all reservations to CEDAW.

In addition, the Campaign calls for the full implementation of the CEDAW Convention and the harmonization of national legislation with its provisions on civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

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