As The F Word blog reports, a number of organisations have joined together to express their concern over the fact that the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has allowed arguments about protecting ‘traditional values’ to trump the human rights of women.
Social and religious morals and patriarchal values have been employed to justify violations against women. Violence against women, coercion and deprivation of legal and other protections of women, marital rape, honour crimes, son preference, female genital mutilation, ‘dowry’ or ‘bride price’, forced and early marriages and ‘corrective rapes’ of lesbians, bisexuals, transgender and inter-sexed persons have all been justified by reference to ‘traditional values’.
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