7.4 CEDAW (1979)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women — "the international bill of rights for women": the discrimination's definition (Art 1 — the effect-or-purpose formula covering de jure and de facto); the elimination duties across the fields (education, employment, health, politics, family law); the temporary special measures (Art 4 — the preferential treatment's justification); the stereotyping-and-trafficking clauses; the political-and- representation guarantees. The committee: the general recommendations' line (including the violence-against-women jurisprudence — GR 19's reading of violence as discrimination); the Optional Protocol's communications and inquiries. Nepal: a party since 1991 — the CEDAW- informed reforms (the inheritance-equality litigation — the Meera Dhungana line; the Gender Equality Act 2063; the 11th Amendment era — LAW 306's cross-read).