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===Human rights=== According to Article 16 of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]], men and women who have attained the [[age of majority]] have the right to marry "without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a16|title=The Universal Declaration of Human Rights|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref> Although most of Article 16 is incorporated verbatim in Article 23 of the [[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]], the references to religious and racial limitations is omitted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html|title=UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref> Article 17, clause two, of the [[American Convention on Human Rights]] says that all men and women have the right to marry, subject to the conditions of domestic law "insofar as such conditions do not affect the principle of nondiscrimination established in this Convention."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cidh.org/Basicos/English/Basic3.American%20Convention.htm|title=AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS|website=cidh.org|access-date=22 October 2017}}</ref>
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