Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

18 December 1979 (New York, United States of America)

3 September 1981

any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms