TECHNICAL NOTE - Developing anti-FGM laws aligned with human rights - UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of

level: Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights; Article 4 of the American Convention on Human 2 WHO, 2008 Rights; Article 4(a) of the Convention of Belem do Para; Article 4 of the Banjul Charter; Article IV(1) of the Maputo 3 End FGM Network and Equality Now, 2020 Protocol; Article 5 of the African Charter on the Rights See also UNFPA and UNICEF, 2020, p. 6. [...] Protocol; Article 16(1) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; Article 8 of the Arab Charter 27 | Technical Note: Developing Anti-FGM Laws Aligned with Human Rights 15 This is the only human right not mentioned or discussed 26 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ in the above cited UNFPA publication It is added here Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa,. [...] General Comment No 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and No 18 60 UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful 2010 Legislative Reform to Support the practices, CEDAW/C/GC/31-CRC/C/GC/18, 4 November Abandonment of FGM/C., p. 29. [...] 45 WHO, 2020 64 Compare with the Joint General Recommendation/ 46 Using the WHO definition of FGM as a basis General Comment No 31 of the Committee on for a definition in a criminal provision has the Elimination of Discrimination against Women been suggested by the Cairo Declaration on and No 18 of the Committee on the Rights of Legal Tools to Prevent FGM (para 4) the Child on harmful practices, p. [...] General Comment No 31 of the Committee on 72 See the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination the Elimination of Discrimination against Women against Women General Recommendation No 35, and No 18 of the Committee on the Rights of para 40 (b) and the Joint General Recommendation/ the Child on harmful practices, para 54(a) General Comment No 31 of the Committee on 84 United Nations High Commis.