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Treaty conference

5WCW

Fifth World Conference on Women

Drafting and ratification of a convention to protect female bodily autonomy from gender-based violence and harmful practices justified under cultural pretexts

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About the committee

Delegates negotiate one convention on bodily autonomy, consent, prevention and survivor protection. The room must set clear rights without treating culture as a vague category or an excuse for harm.

The room ends with a single conference treaty considered article by article before a final vote.

What it has to settle

  1. Which practices and forms of coercion fall within the convention?
  2. How should prevention, criminal law, healthcare and community work fit together?
  3. What monitoring system, funding model and rules on reservations can states accept?

Executive Board

To be announced

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