Amendment No. 16 | Doc. 14787 | 22 January 2019

Compatibility of Sharia law with the European Convention on Human Rights: can States Parties to the Convention be signatories to the “Cairo Declaration”?

Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination

Origin - 2019 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 14.5, replace the words:

"to encourage Muslim communities to acknowledge and respect women’s rights in civil law, especially in the areas of marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance"

with the following words:

"to promote knowledge of their rights amongst Muslim women, especially in the areas of marriage, divorce, custody of children and inheritance, and work with Muslim communities, women organisations and other NGOs to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment".