Impact of Algeria's Reservation to CEDAW on the Freedom of Muslim Women

Khouatra Samia

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Impact of Algeria's Reservation to CEDAW on the Freedom of Muslim Women

Khouatra Samia

Published in International and Public Affairs (Volume 7, Issue 1)

Received: 12 November 2022 Accepted: 25 January 2023 Published: 4 February 2023

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Abstract

It is well established that the international community, and particularly Western society, follows the belief that women, especially Arab Muslims, do not enjoy a measure of freedom, for the reason that they are not considered to have de facto equality with men in rights before duties. This has resulted in suffering regarding all forms of blatant discrimination and this is not in line with the principles preached by the human rights advocated by international organizations and conventions. The latter clearly necessitated the enactment of a convention guaranteeing women's freedom through equality between the rights of women and men and the elimination of all discrimination between them. All this aforementioned discrimination and lack of freedom resulted in the Convention on Elimination. On this basis, the rationale of the present research paper and its objectives aim to shed light on the issue of women's empowerment regarding their rights at both, the level of international conventions as well as legal texts. In addition to this, the Algerian legislator had attempted to reconcile with the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms such as Discrimination against Women whether through the rules of family law or those rules that are derived from Islamic law.

Published in	International and Public Affairs (Volume 7, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ipa.20230701.11
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CEDAW, Muslim Women, Freedom, Equality, Reservation, Algeria

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Khouatra Samia

Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Mohamed Bouguerra Boumerdes University of Algeria, Boumerdes, Algeria

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