the convention covers both civil and political rights rights to vote to participate in public life to acquire change or retain ones nationality equality before the law and freedom of movement and economic social and cultural rights rights to education work health and financial credit the convention also pays specific attention to particular phenomena such as trafficking to certain groups of women for instance rural women and to specific matters where there are special risks to womens full enjoyment of their human rights for example marriage and the family the convention foresees that achieving equality may require positive action on the part of the state to improve the status of women