Human rights — Rights of women — Rights of the child — Religious and customary law — Minimum age for marriage of girls — Right to consent to marriage — Right to inheritance for women and children born out of wedlock — Right to non-discrimination for women and children — States’ obligation to eliminate traditional and cultural practices harmful to rights of women and children — Whether Mali’s Law No 2011-087 on Code of Persons and the Family violating international human rights instruments ratified by respondent State

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Human rights treaties — Articles 2(2), 6(a) and (b), and 21(2) of Protocol to African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003 — Articles 1(3), 2, 3, 4 and 21 of African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990 — Articles 5(a), 16(1) (a) and (b) of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979 — Malian law — Religious and customary law — Islamic law — Whether Mali’s Law No 2011-087 on Code of Persons and the Family violating international human rights instruments ratified by respondent State

International tribunals — Jurisdiction — African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights — Material jurisdiction — Whether case relating to violation of human rights under African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 1981 — Admissibility of application — Exhaustion of local remedies — Whether application filed within reasonable time — Whether Court having jurisdiction to hear case