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Violence Against Women: 10 Reports / Year 2003Finally, OMCT would insist on the need to fully implement all provisionsof the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women as well asthe Beijing Platform of Action, in Mali as these are the most relevantinternational instruments concerned with all forms of violence againstwomen.1 The complete text is available on the website of the Office of the HighCommissioner for Human Rights: www.unhchr.ch and can be obtained under thesymbol: UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.10.2 Article 81 Constitution of Mali.3 Gonzales del Rio v. Peru (comm.. 263/1987, paragraph 5.2, decision adopted on28 October 1992).4 For further details, please see www.ilo.org.5 Mali Constitution (2003).6 Code de la Nationalité (information from the Association pour le Progrés et laDéfense des Droits des Femmes (APDF), a member of the OMCT-SOS TortureNetwork).7 Code Malien du Mariage et de la Tutelle (1962), art. 7.8 Ibid. art. 34 &38.9 Ibid. art. 32.10 Ibid. chap. III, art. 4.11 Ibid. art. 80.12 Ibid. art. 101.13 Information received from APDF (27.02.03).14 Center for Reproductive Rights, Claiming Our Rights: Surviving Pregnancy andChildbirth in Mali, p. 51 (2003).15 Information received from APDF (27.02.03).16 Ibid.17 See www.unicef.org for statistics.18 Information received from APDF (27.02.03).19 Law No. 86-96/AN-RM (12 July 1986).20 UN Doc. CCPR/C/MLI/2003/2 (13 January 2003), p. 34.286