The objective of the “CEDAW” is the legalization of gay marriage in Algeria!

A member of the Monitoring Committee of the CEDAW (Convention On the Fight against all Forms of Discrimination Against Women), under the aegis of the UN, Ms Chaia Djaâfri, revealed that the main objective of this agreement is the legalization of gay marriage in Algeria and the disappearance of the “guardianship” in marriage for women.

This convention has already been applied by many countries in the world but Algeria, which approved the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, dating from 1979 by Ordinance No. 96-03 of January 10th 1996 and adhered to by Presidential Decree No. 96-51 of 22nd January 1996, expressed reservations about certain of its articles that run counter to the Sharia or Islamic Law and the Algerian Family Code.

According to the President of the Algerian Women’s Observatory, Ms. Jaâfri, the recent statement of the Minister of National Solidarity, Family and Women’s condition, Mounia Meslem that Algeria is for the application of this Convention on condition of lifting reservations, is a transitional measure as Algeria will be eventually compelled to apply all the convention’s articles of the CEDAW as formally agreed at the Beijing conference that was attended by our interlocutor and the relevant  minister herself.

It should be noted that in his recent message on the occasion of the celebration of World Women’s Day, President Abdellaziz Bouteflika called for the revamping  of certain articles of the relevant Convention which will be in strict compliance with Sharia or Islamic Law.

Indeed, President Abdellaziz Bouteflika appealed to the relevant authorities asking them to reconsider the reservations of Algeria concerning certain articles of the Convention “in line with the gains made in the promotion and protection of women’s rights,” adding that ” these reservations must indeed be reviewed, in strict observance of Sharia.”

In this context, the Minister of Solidarity said the lifting of the reservations put forth by Algeria will never deal with certain articles of the Convention that violate the Sharia as is the case for the required assent of the “guardian” for the validation of the marriage of women in addition to the “kafala” or child adoption.

Ms. Meslem reiterated that the decisions of the State related to gains achieved by women and families “shouldn’t come out of the basic precepts of Islamic Sharia,” adding that “any decision away from the lofty precepts of our religion will never adopted by Algeria.”