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LIBYA ACCEDES TO CONVENTION ON POLITICAL RIGHTS OF WOMEN
Posting Date: 09/14/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
UN PRESS RELEASE:
Libya has acceded to the Convention on the Political Rights of
Women. Its instrument of accession was received by the United
Nations Office of Legal Affairs on 16 May.
The Convention on the Political Rights of Women was opened for
signature at New York on 31 March 1953 and entered into force on
7 July 1954. It provides that women, on equal terms with men,
and without discrimination, shall have the right to vote, to be
eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies, to hold
public office and to exercise all public functions.
* Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501)
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