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A/C.3/32/WG.1/CRP.7/Add.1

Texts adopted by the Working Group on the Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its 4th meeting held on 28 October 1977

UN Document Symbol A/C.3/32/WG.1/CRP.7/Add.1
Convention Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Document Type Other
Session 32nd
Type Document
Description

1 p.

Subjects Women

Extracted Text

A/C.3/32/WG.l/CRP.7/Add.1
28 October 1977
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Thirty-second session Item 85 of the agenda
UNITED NATIONS DECADE FOR WOMEN: EQUALITY, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE
Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Texts adopted "by the Working Group on the Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its 4th meeting held on 28 October 1977
Preamble
Paragraph 2 was adopted. The text reads as follows:
Noting that the Universal Declaration of Human Bights affirms the principle of the inadmissibility of discrimination and proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of tiny kind, including distinction based on sex.
Paragraph 12 (former para. 11) was adopted by consensus. The text reads as follows:
Determined to implement the principles set forth in the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and, for that purpose, to adopt the measures required for the elimination of such die crimination in. all its forms and manifestations.
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