38. The Committee calls on the State party to take the necessary measures to increase and strengthen the participation of women in designing and implementing local development plans, and to pay special attention to the needs of rural women, in particular women heads of household, by ensuring that they participate in decision-making processes and have improved access to health, education, clean water and sanitation services, fertile land and income-generation projects. The Committee also urges the State party to eliminate all forms of discrimination with respect to ownership, co-sharing and inheritance of land. It further urges the introduction of measures to address negative customs and traditional practices, especially in rural areas, which affect full enjoyment of the right to property by women.
Year | 2011 |
Topic | Food policy |
Document Type | Country Recommendations |
Country | South Africa |
Policy Area | Food production Food and nutrition security Access to water |
Human Rights Comiteee | CEDAW |
Human Rights | Right to water Right to health Right to no discrimination Right to adequate food and nutrition |
Groups Affected | Women and/or girls People living in rural areas |
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW/C/ZAF/CO/4, (2011). Par. 38. Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW%2fC%2fZAF%2fCO%2f4&Lang=en