• CEDAW is based on the principle of substantive equality between men and women, guaranteeing not just equality of opportunity, but real equality – equality of outcomes.
  
  
• CEDAW provides a complete definition of discrimination as any distinction, exclusion, or restriction on the basis of sex, which intentionally or unintentionally nullifies or impairs the recognition, enjoyment and exercise of women’s social, cultural, political and economic rights. 
  
  
• CEDAW binds all States Parties to fulfill, protect, and respect women’s rights. States Parties must not discriminate against women in any way.
  
  
• CEDAW requires that State Parties must ensure that private organizations, enterprises and individuals promote and protect women’s rights.
  
  
• CEDAW addresses gender inequalities at all levels and in all spheres- the family, community, market and state.
  
  
• CEDAW recognizes and addresses violations of women’s human rights in the private sphere of the home.
  
  
• CEDAW addressed the negative impact of social and customary culture practices which are grounded in assumptions of the inferiority or the superiority of either sex or on stereotyped roles for women and men.

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