The Independent Commission for Human Rights of ratification or accession, the Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of the deposit of its own instrument of ratification or accession. Under the Vienna Convention, States are also granted the right to make reservations on a treaty during its signing or ratification. Such reservations are considered unilateral, and aimed at excluding or changing the legal effect of the treaty or convention. States can, for example, respect the treaty, save for certain provisions deemed to be in contravention of their national laws. A reservation has three restraints, however. The treaty, for example, may rule out reservations or prohibit certain types of them, and a reservation incompatible with the object and purpose of a treaty is not permitted. In addition, the reservation should be specifically aimed at excluding or changing the content of the treaty in regard to the reserving State. Based on this, CEDAW grants States the right to make reservations during ratification or accession to it provided that these reservations would be presented to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. At the same time, the Convention gives States the right to withdraw their reservations any time by presenting notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to this effect. The Palestinian Basic Law of 2002 does not include any articles or provisions regulating the mechanisms of ratifying international treaties and conventions. In light of the absence of such constitutional provisions, the highest authority of the State of Palestine can locally ratify CEDAW and then present the ratification instrument to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Once the Convention is ratified, the State shall be bound by it. The State of Palestine can make reservations concerning certain articles, taking into account the terms of Vienna Conventions and those of CEDAW. However, making a reservation on substantive articles of the Convention may sound incompatible with the object and purpose of it, which is the achievement of gender equality and elimination of gender based discrimination. The Basic Law also does not regulate the relationship between international treaties and national laws and legislation in terms of significance. The regulation of such relationships arises when the different authorities refuse to implement the Convention or any of its provisions on the pretext of its contravention of national laws. In light of the absence of a constitutional 18