a) What are precisely the violations, and whom would you charge with committing them? b) On what provisions of these treaties would you rely on for your claims of a human rights violation? What arguments would you make based on them

Country X is a party to the ICCPR and CEDAW. Its government takes no formal position on female genital mutilation, which is undergone by a substantial amount of families. No laws or official policy require or facilitate or prohibit the practice. Suppose that you are a member of a non-governmental organization in X criticizing this widespread practice before international human rights bodies like the committees created by the ICCPR, and CEDAW, on the grounds that it violates these treaties:

a) What are precisely the violations, and whom would you charge with committing them?

b) On what provisions of these treaties would you rely on for your claims of a human rights violation? What arguments would you make based on them?

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