Box 7: Human rights of special significance to women and girls RIGHT/OBLIGATION TREATY SOURCE Prohibition on sex-based discrimination • • • • • • • • • • • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 2; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, articles 2 (1), 3 and 26; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, article 2; Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 2; Migrant Workers Convention, article 7; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, articles 2 (2), 3 and 7; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 6; European Convention on Human Rights, article 14; American Convention on Human Rights, article 1; African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, articles 2 and 18 (3). Non-treaty source: Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, article 1. The right to be free from gender-based violence • • • Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, article 3 (4) and 4; OAS Convention on Violence against Women, article 3; Non-treaty sources: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women’s general recommendation No. 19; Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women; Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, part I, para. 18; part II, para. 38; Beijing Platform for Action, paras. 113 (b), 124 (b); Beijing +5 Outcome Document, paras. 41 and 59. The right to marry with free and full consent • • • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 16 (2); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 23; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, article 10; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, article 16 (1)(b); American Convention on Human Rights, article 17 (3); Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, article 6 (a); Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, 1957, article 1 (c). • • • • The prohibition on exploitation of prostitution • • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, article 6; Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949, article 1. COMMENTARY 63