CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE
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Name and date of adoption
Convention on Consent to Marriage,
Minimum Age for Marriage and
Registration of Marriages
Date of coming into
force
Date of deposit of
instrument of
succession,
ratification or
accession by Burkina
Faso
9 December 1964
8 December 1964
4 January 1969
18 July 1974
13 November 1987
14 October 1987
22 December 2000
No instrument
deposited
26 June 1987
4 January 1999
18 July 1976
24 October 1978
30 September 1990
31 August 1990
10 December 1962
International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination
7 March 1966
Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW)
18 December 1979
Optional Protocol to the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW)
6 October 1999
Convention against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment
10 December 1984
International Convention on the
Suppression and Punishment of the
Crime of Apartheid
30 November 1973
Convention on the Rights of the Child
20 November 1980
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