Soberanía Estatal y Derechos Humanos: ¿irreconciliables? Un análisis de la validez y los efectos de las reservas a la CEDAW

Julieta Levin

Authors

Julieta Levin

Keywords:

reservations, state consent, human rights, cedaw, sever, ability

Abstract

The present paper begins with a study of the object and purpose of a treaty as a limit to the State’s ability to formulate reservations due to its sover- eignty. From this analysis, the paper moves on to the study of the reservations to CEDAW’s substantive rules made by States based on contradictions with their local law and their compatibility with its object and purpose. Especially, the analysis focus on the validity of the general reservations and reservations to articles 2 and 16. Finally, the paper studies the effects of the invalid reservations.

The hypothesis of this paper suggests that the reservations to CEDAW’s substan- tive rules based in the States local law are invalid because of their incompat- ibility with the object and purpose of the treaty but that the reserving States are obliged by the Convention because their consent to be obliged by it prevails over the will of formulating reservations, when these are invalid. The paper arrives to the conclusion that the hypothesis is partially corroborated as the reservations based in local law are not always necessarily invalid.

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Julieta Levin

Estudiante de Derecho, UBA.

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