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violence against women in all its forms, and to enhance respect
for the dignity of women”. 351
The Maputo Protocol calls on States parties to “actively
promote peace education through curricula and social
communication in order to eradicate elements in traditional and
cultural beliefs, practices and stereotypes which legitimize and
exacerbate the persistence and tolerance of violence against
women”. 352
The Istanbul Convention requires States parties to “take the
necessary measures to promote changes in the social and
cultural patterns of behaviour of women and men with a view
to eradicating prejudices, customs, traditions and all other
practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority of
women or on stereotyped roles for women and men”.
351
Convention of Belém do Pará, above note 245, Article 8(g).
352
Maputo Protocol, above note 230, Article 4(2)(d).