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68.1
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes a clause
that marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of
the intending spouses;
68.2
The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW), which requires member states to take all
appropriate measures to: (a) modify the social and cultural patterns of
conduct of men and women, in order to eliminate prejudices and
discriminatory customary and other practices (art 26); (b) implement
legislation to supress all forms of trafficking in women (art 5);
(c) eliminate discrimination against women in all matters relating to
marriage and family relations, and in particular to ensure, on the basis
of equality of men and women, the same right to enter into marriage
with free and full consent (art 16(1));
68.3
The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking In
Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN
Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (“Trafficking
Protocol”) which compels member states to make trafficking in persons
a criminal offence;
68.4
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on
the Rights of Women in Africa, which is to similar effect as CEDAW;
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