Traduction de «Pratique coutumière préjudiciable » (Français → Anglais) :

Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children

There are many forms of violence that women experience because they are women. These include domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape, sexual violence during conflict and harmful customary or traditional practices such as female genital mutilation, forced marriages and honour crimes.

J. whereas women are particularly vulnerable during pregnancy or childbirth because of several forms of discrimination, including disparities between men and women in the household, traditional practices that are harmful to women, violence against women and rejection of female babies; whereas the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which all EU Member States have ratified, states that governments must work actively to 'modify social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are base ...[+++]d on the idea or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women' and specifically 'ensure to women appropriate services in connection with pregnancy, confinement and the post-natal period',

Initiatives in the area of culture will contribute to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudice and customary practices which are based on the idea of inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women.