CEDAW/C/GC/34 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. 16-03601 25/25

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