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(2) Convention on the Political Rights of Women, adopted by the seventh session of the General Assembly, December 20, 19522

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Extract

Desiring to implement the principle of equality of rights for men and women contained in the Charter of the United Nations,

Recognizing that everyone has the right to take part in the government ofhis country directly or through freely chosen representatives, and has the right to equal access to public service in his country, and desiring to equalize the status of men and women in the enjoyment and exercise of political rights, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

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Documents on the United Nations
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International Organization , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1953 , pp. 173 - 175
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1953

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2 Ibid., part V, p. 19.