Article Two mandates:
"All appropriate measures shall be taken to abolish existing laws, customs, regulations, and practices which are discriminatory against women, and to establish adequate legal protection for equal rights of men and women."
Article 6 (2a) states:
"Women shall have the same right as men to free choice of a spouse and to enter into marriage only with their full and free consent."
In the past secular governments have been reluctant to challenge beliefs and practices that not only discriminate against women but are actually abusive because they were deemed to be religious and, therefore, sacrosanct.
In her unflinching assessment of her Satmar community, Deborah Feldman has underscored the reality that even today women live in oppressive conditions.
Given the complicity of religions with the patriarchy's subordination of women, isn't it time for religious leaders to acknowledge this and to renounce the religious texts that have provided the basis for many of their oppressive attitudes and practices?
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