| ii. ICCPR
[817] The Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance with this treaty, has also strongly expressed its disapproval of polygamy.
[818] In General Comment No. 28: Equality of rights between men and women (article 3), UN HRCOR, 68th Sess., (2000), U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.10, the HRC criticized polygamy (at para. 24) :
It should also be noted that equality of treatment with regard to the right to marry implies that polygamy is incompatible with this principle. Polygamy violates the dignity of women. It is an inadmissible discrimination against women. Consequently, it should be abolished wherever it continues to exist.
[819] The HRC has also commented on polygamy in its concluding observations. The provisions of the treaty that have been held to be violated by the practice are article 3, which requires state parties to undertake to ensure that women and men enjoy all rights under the Covenant equally, and article 26, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as several other grounds.
[820] Article 23(4) of the ICCPR, which requires state parties to “take appropriate steps to ensure equality of rights and responsibilities of spouses as to marriage” is also infringed by any martial system that allows polygyny.
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