CEDAW.
Case of Dayras, et al. v. France. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); 2009.
Publisher's VersionAbstracthttp://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/jurisprudence.htm
CEDAW/C/44/D/13/2007
The parties to Dayras, et al. v. France (C/44/D/13/2007) are Michèle Dayras, Nelly Campo-Trumel, Sylvie Delange, Frédérique Remy-Cremieu, Micheline Zeghouani, Hélène Muzard-Fekkar and Adèle Daufrene-Levrard, seven French nationals who are represented by SOS Sexisme, an organization based in Issy-les- Moulineaux, France. They claim to be victims of a violation by France of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Convention and its Optional Protocol entered into force for the State party on 13 January 1984 and 9 September 2000, respectively. A reservation was entered by France on ratification to article 16, paragraph 1 (g), of the Convention.
CEDAW.
Case of G.D. and S.F. v. France. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); 2009.
Publisher's VersionAbstracthttp://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/jurisprudence.htm
CEDAW/C/44/D/12/2007
The plaintiffs in G.D. and S.F. v. France (C/44/D/12/2007) who were automatically given their fathers’ last names pursuant to a customary law, despite being raised exclusively by their mothers, challenged the law as discriminating between the rights of husband and wife guaranteed under Article 16 of the Convention; the Committee held that the authors had no basis for invoking Article 16, because they themselves were not married and had no children.
