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groups of rural women who face intersecting forms of discrimination and
specific barriers in gaining access to their rights.
VI. Reservations and declarations
95. Reservations to any article of the Convention, and in particular articles 2 (f),
5 (a), 7, 9 and 14 to 16, may have a disproportionate impact on rural women.
Examples include reservations limiting or otherwise adversely affecting their ability
to enjoy rights to housing, land and property, such as those relating to succession
and inheritance, as well as reservations limiting their right to political participation.
96. States parties that have entered reservations should provide information
in their periodic reports to the Committee on the specific effects of such
reservations on the enjoyment by rural women of their rights, as set out in the
Convention, and indicate the steps taken to keep those reservations under
review, with a view to withdrawing them as soon as possible.
VII. Dissemination and reporting
97. The Committee encourages States parties to translate the present general
recommendation into national and local languages, including indigenous and
minority languages, and to disseminate it widely to all branches of government,
civil society, the media, academic institutions and women’s organizations,
including rural women’s organizations. The Committee recommends that, when
preparing their periodic reports, especially as regards article 14, States parties
consult rural women’s groups, including women farmers’ organizations,
producer collectives and rural cooperatives.
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