CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE _____________________________________________________________________ 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 73

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