Editing Women's rights (section)

=== Regional conventions ===

[[File:Regional women's rights conventions participation map.svg|thumb|300px|[[Belém do Pará Convention]], [[Maputo Protocol]] and [[Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence|Istanbul Convention]] participation combined.
{{legend|#00AA00|Signed and ratified}}
{{legend|#008000|Acceded or succeeded}}
{{legend|#EEEE00|Only signed}}
{{legend|#FF1111|Not signed}}
{{legend|#C0C0C0|Not a member state of the AU, CoE or OAS<ref>Denmark has signed and ratified the Istanbul Convention, but it does not apply to Greenland and the Faroe Islands.</ref>}}]]
{{Main|Belém do Pará Convention|Maputo Protocol|Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence}}
The Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women, better known as the [[Belém do Pará Convention]], was adopted by the [[Organization of American States]] on 9 June 1994. As of March 2020, 32 of the 34 or 35 [[member states of the Organization of American States]] have either signed and ratified or acceded to the Belém do Pará Convention; only [[Canada]], [[Cuba]] and the [[United States]] have not.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oas.org/en/mesecvi/docs/Signatories-Table-EN.pdf |title=Status of signatures and ratifications (Convention of Belém do Pará) |work=CIM website |publisher=Organization of American States |access-date=14 March 2020}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|The [[Member states of the Organization of American States|OAS membership]] status of Cuba is currently unclear, see [[Cuba–OAS relations]]. This leads some sources to count Cuba as one of the 35 OAS member states, while other sources assert that there are only 34 OAS member states. Either way, and although non-OAS states are allowed to accede to the treaty, Cuba has neither signed nor ratified nor acceded to the Belém do Pará Convention.|group="note"}}

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the [[Maputo Protocol]], was adopted by the [[African Union]] on 11 July 2003 at its second summit in [[Maputo]],<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0307/S00279.htm African Union: Rights of Women Protocol Adopted] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628210229/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0307/S00279.htm |date=28 June 2009 }}, press release, [[Amnesty International]], 22 July 2003.</ref> Mozambique. On 25 November 2005, having been ratified by the required 15 member nations of the African Union, the protocol entered into force.<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00099.htm UNICEF: toward ending female genital mutilation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628232726/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00099.htm |date=28 June 2009 }}, press release, [[United Nations Children's Fund|UNICEF]], 7 February 2006.</ref> The protocol guarantees comprehensive rights to women including the right to take part in the political process, to social and political [[sexual equality|equality]] with men, and to control of their [[reproductive health]], and an end to [[female genital mutilation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-fgm-maputoprotocol.pdf |title=The Maputo Protocol of the African Union |author=Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) |date=6 March 2015 |access-date=8 October 2015 |archive-date=15 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415144600/http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-fgm-maputoprotocol.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence]], better known as the Istanbul Convention, was adopted by the [[Council of Europe]] on 11 May 2011. As of June 2020, the treaty has been signed by 45/47 Council of Europe member states and the [[European Union]]; 34 of the signatories have also ratified the convention.<ref name="Full list Istanbul Convention">{{cite web |title=Full list: Chart of signatures and ratifications of Treaty 210 |url=http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/210/signatures |publisher=Council of Europe |access-date=5 June 2020}}</ref>