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(d) To obtain all types of training and education, formal and non-formal, including that relating to
functional literacy, as well as, inter alia, the benefit of all community and extension services, in order
to increase their technical proficiency;

(e) To organize self-help groups and co-operatives in order to obtain equal access to economic
opportunities through employment or self employment;

(f) To participate in all community activities;

(g) To have access to agricultural credit and loans, marketing facilities, appropriate technology and
equal treatment in land and agrarian reform as well as in land resettlement schemes;

(h) To enjoy adequate living conditions, particularly in relation to housing, sanitation, electricity and
water supply, transport and communications.

PART IV

Article 15

1. States Parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.

2. States Parties shall accord to women, in civil matters, a legal capacity identical to that of men and
the same opportunities to exercise that capacity. In particular, they shall give women equal rights to
conclude contracts and to administer property and shall treat them equally in all stages of procedure in
courts and tribunals.

3. States Parties agree that all contracts and all other private instruments of any kind with a legal
effect which is directed at restricting the legal capacity of women shall be deemed null and void.

4. States Parties shall accord to men and women the same rights with regard to the law relating to the
movement of persons and the freedom to choose their residence and domicile.

Article 16

1. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in all
matters relating to marriage and family relations and in particular shall ensure, on a basis of equality
of men and women:

(a) The same right to enter into marriage;

(b) The same right freely to choose a spouse and to enter into marriage only with their free and full
consent;

(c) The same rights and responsibilities during marriage and at its dissolution;

(d) The same rights and responsibilities as parents, irrespective of their marital status, in matters
relating to their children; in all cases the interests of the children shall be paramount;

(e) The same rights to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children and
to have access to the information, education and means to enable them to exercise these rights;

(f) The same rights and responsibilities with regard to guardianship, wardship, trusteeship and
adoption of children, or similar institutions where these concepts exist in national legislation; in all
cases the interests of the children shall be paramount;

(g) The same personal rights as husband and wife, including the right to choose a family name, a
profession and an occupation;