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Bare act

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979

Ratified by India on 25 June 1993. Effect-or-purpose discrimination; temporary special measures; the duty to modify social and cultural patterns of conduct.

The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.

Sections in the syllabus

s. Arts. 1, 2 and 18

Covered in Unit 4 · Vulnerable Groups and Regional Arrangements.