A) Books & Articles
- Ali, S.S. (2000). “Response of Muslim States to International Human Rights Instruments Affecting Women: A Discussion in the Light of Reservations to the Women's Convention” in: Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law. Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man?, The Hague/London/Boston: Springer Netherlands.
- An-Na’im, A.A. (1987-1988). “The Rights of Women and International Law in the Muslim Context”, Whittier L.Rev., Vol.9, p.491.
- Arzt, D.E. (1990). “The Application of International Human Rights Law in Islamic States”, Hum.Rts.Q., Vol. 12, pp.202-212.
- Askari, L. (1998). “Girls' Rights Under International Law: An Argument for Establishing Gender Equality as a Jus Cogens”, S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud., Vol .8, p.3.
- Baylis, E.A. (1999). "General Comment 24: Confronting the Problem of Reservations to Human Rights Treaties", Berkely J.Int’l L., Vol. 17, pp.277-287.
- Bowett, D.W. (1976/1977). "Reservations to Non-Restricted Multilateral Treaties ", B.Y.I.L., Vol.48, p.67.
- Brandt, M. & Kaplan, J.A. (1995-1996). “The Tension Between Women's Rights and Religious Rights: Reservations to CEDAW by Egypt, Bangladesh and Tunisia”, J.Law & Rel., Vol. 12, pp.105-121.
- Byrnes (1989). “The ‘Other’ Human Right Treaty Body: The Work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women”, Yale J.Int’l L., Vol. 14, pp.1-57.
- Chinkin, C. (2001). “Cultural Relativism and International Law” in Courtney W. Howland (ed.) Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Clark (1991). “The Vienna Convention Reservation Regime and the Convention on Discrimination Against Women”, A.J.I.L., Vol. 85, pp. 281-311.
- Coccia, M.(1985). “Reservation to Multilateral Treaties on Human Rights”, Cal.W.Int’l L.J., Vol. 15, pp. 45-50.
- Connors, J. (1997). “The Women's Convention in the Muslim World’ in J.P. Gardner (ed.), Human Rights as General Norms and a State's Rights to Opt Out. Reservations and Objections to Human Rights Conventions, London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
- Cook, R. (1990). “Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women”, Va.J.Int’l L., Vol. 30, p. 643-645.
- Crooms, L.A. (1996). “Indivisible Rights and Intersectional Identities, or ‘What Do Women’s Rights Have to Do with the Race Convention?”, How.L.J., Vol. 18, pp.619-627.
- Deen, T. (1998). Women: Reservations Grow Over U.N. Women's Treaty, Inter Press Service, Lexis News Library, Curnws File, 15th March 1998.
- Donner, L. (1994). "Gender Bias in Drafting International Discrimination Conventions: The 1979 Women’s Convention Compared with the 1965 Racial Convention’ " Cal.W.Int’l L.J., p.241.
- Dormady, V.A. (1999). “Status of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1998”, Int'l Law, Vol. 33, pp.637-638.
- Jenefsky (1991). “Permissibility of Egypt's Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women”, Md.J.Int’l L. & Trade, Vol. 15, pp.199 at 205.
- Keller, L. (2004-2005). “The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Evolution and (Non) Implementation Worldwide”, T. Jefferson L. R., Vol. 27, pp.35- 40.
- Ljinzaad, L. (1995). “Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women” in: Reservations to Un-Human Rights Treaties. Ratify and Ruin?, Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
- Mayer, A.E. (2001). “Religious Reservations to the Convention on the Eliminations of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: What Do They Really Mean?”, in Courtney W. Howland (ed.) Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Meron, Theodor (1986). Human Rights Law Making in the United Nations: A Critique of Instruments and Process, New York/Oxford: Claredon Press Oxford University Press.
- Minor, J.A. (1994). “An Analysis of Structural Weaknesses in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women”, Ga.J.Int'l & Comp.L., pp.137-144.
- Morrison & Foerster on behalf of B'nai B'rith Women (1993). “All Appropriate Measures: United States Conformance with the Requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women”.
- Riddle, J. (2002). “Making CEDAW Universal: A Critique of CEDAW's Reservations Regime under Article 28 and the Effectiveness of the Reporting Process”, Geo.Wash.Int’l L.R., Vol. 34, pp. 605-628.
- Ruda, J.M. (1975). "Reservations to Treaties ", Recueil des Cours III, No. 146, p.95.
- Schabas, W.A. (1997). “Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child”, Wm.& Mary J. Women & L., Vol. 3, p.99.
- Sinclair, I.M. (1984). The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Manchester/Dover: Manchester University Press.
- Steiner, H. & Alston, P. (1999). International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Moral, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Tomasevki, K. (1993). Women and human rights, London: Zed Books.
- Venkatraman, B. A. (1995). “Islamic States and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: Are the Shari'a and the Convention Compatible?”, Am. U. L. Rev., Vol. 44.
B) Documents
- Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 49th session, U.N. GAOR Supp. No. 38 at 16 U.N. Doc. A/49/38 (1994).
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Fourth-tent meeting of States Parties, Declarations, reservations, objections and notifications of withdrawal of reservations relating to the Convention on the Elimination of All Form of Discrimination against Women, New York (2006) CEDAW/SP/2006/2.
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Third session, U.N. Doc. A/39/45 (1984)
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination, Eleventh session, General Recommendation 20, ‘Reservations to the Convention’ U.N.Doc.A/47/38 (1993)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Form of Racial Discrimination, entered into force 4 January 1969, GA Res. 2106 A (XX), U.N.T.S. 85
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted 18th December 1979, entered into force 3rd September 1981, U.N.Doc. A/34/46.
- Convention on the Rights of the Child,G.A. res. 44/25, annex, 44 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 167, U.N. Doc. A/44/49(1989), entered into force 2nd September 1990.
- Human Rights Committee: Fifty-second session, General Comment No. 24, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.6 (1994).
- International Court of Justice, Reservation to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Advisory Opinion 1951, I.C.J. Report 1951.
- Loizidou v. Turkey (preliminary objections), ECHR, Application no. 15318/89, Judgment of 23 March 1995.
- Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General: status as at 31 December 2004, United Nations publications, Sales no. E.05.V.3, ST/LEG/SER/.E/23.
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted 13th October 1999, entered into force 22nd December 2000 G.A. A/RES/54/4.
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, adopted 23rd May 1969, entered into force 27th January 1980, U.N.Doc. A/CONF 39.26.
C) Websites
- Amnesty International, Reservation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Form of Discrimination Against Women. Weakening the Protection of Women From Violence in the Middle East and North Africa Region (2004) available at:
http://Web.Amnesty.Org/Library/Index/Engior510092004.
