2.5 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination

against Women 1979 The women's constitution (the course's core treaty): the definition (Article 1: the discrimination's comprehensive codification — the effect-based definition: the "effect," not only the "purpose" — the de facto face); the substantive guarantees (the education, the employment, the health, the political-and-public life, the nationality, the marriage-and-family — Articles 7-16); Article 2 (the obligations' framework: the laws' repeal, the machinery, the modification of the social-and-cultural patterns — Article 5's stereotypes' duty); Article 4 (the special measures — the affirmative action's treaty authorisation: "not discrimination"); the Committee (CEDAW) (the reporting, the General Recommendations — GR 19's violence-as-discrimination definition); the Optional Protocol 1999 (the communications + the inquiry — the individual's access); the Nepal faces: the 1991 ratification (no substantial reservations); the CEDAW's domestic jurisprudence (the Meera Dhungana line — the treaty's interpretative use — Unit 8's story); the pure CEDAW point for the exams.