Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) Article 24.
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) Article 2.
- African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (1986) Art. 4
- African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990) Article 21.
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or African Union 'Maputo Protocol (2003)
- The Cairo Declaration for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (2003)
- Traditional or Customary Practices affecting the Health of Women and Girls. UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/56/128 (2002)
- Ending female genital mutilation. UN Commission on the Status of Women draft Resolution E/CN.6/2007/L.3/Rev.1
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