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Adoption of CEDAW (1979)
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18 Dec 1979 — The UN General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by 130 votes to none. It enters into force on 3 September 1981, once twenty states have ratified it.
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- UN Decade for Women and CEDAW (chapter 6 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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- Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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