Sentences with phrase «form of discrimination against women»

It reflects deep - rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women.

The U.N.'s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), tasked with monitoring compliance by 185 states party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (also called CEDAW), uses UNFPA data regularly to argue that abortion is an international human right.

One way in which delegates and NGOs seek to accomplish the latter is the yearly ritual excoriation of the United States for not having ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Ms Hilary Gbedemah, Ghana's representative to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), United Nations, took participants through the topic: «Understanding the content of sexual and gender based violence in Ghana».

They called for the passage of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Ordinance.

«Nevertheless, She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.»

Furthermore, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) classifies such discrimination against women in «largely gender - neutral and referential terms.»

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, General Assembly resolution 34/180 of 18 December 1979.

The charter commits the government to countering all forms of discrimination against women, including violence, via the appropriate legislative and institutional measures.

The project also served two other immediate objectives; (a) To enhance gender equality, raise the profile of women and address issues relating to all forms of discrimination against women, particularly in conflict situations and.

A great place to start is the National Women's History project, where students can explore this year's theme, «Nevertheless, She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.»

(a) To enhance gender equality, raise the profile of women and address issues relating to all forms of discrimination against women, particularly in conflict situations and.

The threats to water supplies that might be posed by BECCS could be construed to violate the right to water, recognized, inter alia, under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The CEDAW Report Card is West Coast LEAF's annual assessment of how well BC is measuring up on international legal standards of women's equality set out in the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Among these are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, (2004), the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention (1982), and the Equal Remuneration Convention (1996).

This campaign follows West Coast LEAF's trip to Geneva to speak at the United Nations on the review of Canada's progress under the international bill of women's rights, the Conventional on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Canada needs a comprehensive and holistic national gender equality plan that addresses all forms of discrimination against women and girls.

West Coast LEAF's CEDAW Report Card is an annual assessment of how well BC is complying with the obligations set out in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which was ratified by Canada in 1981.

Every year, West Coast LEAF issues our CEDAW Report Card on how BC is measuring up when it comes to international obligations under the UN Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

The report card assesses BC's adherence to the human rights standards set out in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)-- the international bill of women's rights.

It is explicitly mentioned in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights has discussed at length the right's implicit presence within the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights» (ICESCR) «right to an adequate standard of living.»

The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

That the Commonwealth government ensure universal ratification of individual communication processes under international human rights treaties by ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Its priorities are fighting discriminatory laws, combating human trafficking, implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and promoting international human rights.

[15] See for example Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, General Recommendation 25, on article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, on temporary special measures, (2004), para 20.

So, for example, Article 27 alongside the guarantees of non-discrimination, equality of men and women, and equality before the law in Articles 2, 3 and 26 of the Covenant should be read consistently with related provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

The right to adequate housing is contained in a number of international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

See also International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Convention has been ratified by 170 nations (only the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women have been ratified by more nations).

Not exact matches

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

The meaning of scripture can be twisted to serve the purposes of men so we must do everything that we can to ensure that the «Good Words» that are taught are the actual words of Yehoshua rather than the selected words of Paul and the Old Testament that form the basis of discrimination against women, racial minorities, homosexuals, and «different» religions (including atheism).

4) without prejudice to the generality of 3) any doctrine which displays or is likely to encourage any form of discrimination against girls and women or against gay people, and any form of encouragement to gay people of any age to suppress or amend their sexuality;

(However, Bill C - 31 still did not eliminate all the forms of sexual discrimination against indigenous women and their children that were created by the Indian Act.

Article 22 (2) of the Declaration provides that, «[s] tates shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination.»

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