ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the findings for the issues that were selected under women's rights under private and family law; inheritance, polygamy, and the issue of forced and early marriage. Despite the repeated declarations at international level, women continue to face violations of their rights under private and family law. The universality of women's rights protection on issues relating to private and family law is more likely to be challenged from a cultural relativist perspective. Contrary to the analysis in the literature, which raises concerns on the inconsistency between legal protection of women's rights on inheritance and actual practice, the focus of the majority of the discourse undertaken in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process has been on the enactment or implementation of domestic laws on inheritance. The statements issued on the UPR process in relation to incremental reforms can be used in the national coordination, planning, and monitoring for the promotion and protection of human rights issues in the domestic context.
