GENEVA (OHCHR) – Laws that discriminate against women are still to be found on the statute books of virtually every country in the world, and repeated promises by states to revise or repeal them are not being honoured, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said Friday.
Arbour, who was speaking on the eve of International Women’s Day, said a newly released report commissioned by OHCHR shows that “the effects of this failure to create true legal parity between men and women in all sorts of social, economic and political arenas is having a detrimental effect on women in many countries – sometimes to a devastating degree".
#DiscriminationAgainSTWomen #GenderByousness #DiscriminatoryLaws #InternationalWomensDay
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OHCHR
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Press Release
in English
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Keywords:
WOMEN, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS ADVANCEMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING, HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, WOMEN'S STATUS, SOCIAL CHANGE, BATTERED WOMEN, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, RAPE, RAPE, VICTIMS, SEX CRIMES, SEXUAL HARASSMENT, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.
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UNOHCHR
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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14.02.02
- Human Rights
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