Gender and Land Rights Database

Pakistan

CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (adopted on 18 December 1979). Relevant articles: 2, 4, 14 and 16.

Accessed 12 March 1996.

- Reservation to Article 29 paragraph 1 (18).

CEDAW-OP: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (adopted on 6 October 1999).

Not signed

ICESCR: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (adopted on 16 December 1966). Relevant articles: 2(2), 3 and 11(1).

Ratified on 17 Apriil 2008

ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (adopted on 16 December 1966). Relevant articles: 2(1), 3, 14, 16 and 23(4).

Signed on 17 April 2008

Other international regulations

Declaration on Indigenous People
Voted in favour, as member of the UN Assembly, 13 September 2007.

Convention on the Rights of the Child
Signed 20 September 1990.
Ratified 12 November 1990.

ILO Discrimination Employment and Occupation Convention N. 111, 1958
Ratified 24 January 1961.

ILO Equal Remuneration Convention N. 100, 1953
Ratified 11 October 2001.

 

Sources: numbers in brackets (*) refer to sources displayed in the Bibliography