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Violence Against Women - Stakeholders Call for Support 1 Dec 2009 09:39 GMT
... of women, and hold the UN system itself accountable for supporting measures to eliminate discrimination against women and end violence against them," he said. WODEF President, Mrs. Bimbo Oloyede applauded the ...
POLITICS IN BRIEF 1/12 1 Dec 2009 07:01 GMT
... rights and strictly adhere to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, said Mr Trong. He expressed his hope that female parliamentarians will carry out more ...
Control of assets shields women from violence: Activist 1 Dec 2009 07:03 GMT
... rights conventions ratified by its 10 member states including the UN convention on ending discrimination against women. Despite criticism over its watered down mandate, Wee said it is up to the ...
Combatting Trafficking In Girls 1 Dec 2009 01:53 GMT
... and Indian governments have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which obligate states ...
Feminists Psychoanalyze Themselves Again 30 Nov 2009 04:33 GMT
... Feminists view society's expectation that mothers should care for their own children as oppressive discrimination against women. The institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has ...
Healing the Inner Woman 30 Nov 2009 13:55 GMT
... Bulawayo. "Our aim is to campaign against sexual violence and harassment as well as discrimination against women. "We are encouraging legal reform, spreading awareness of women's rights and ensuring that perpetrators ...
New Report Says UN Women's Rights Committee Increased Activism but Nations Remain Unimpressed 30 Nov 2009 05:53 GMT
... compliance with the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) says it increased its activism in the last two years by working more ...
International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women 25 Nov 2009 20:15 GMT
... Social and Cultural Rights, 2/ the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 3/ and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or ...
Plassnik: "CEDAW ' the magna carta of equal rights for women" 27 Nov 2009 22:35 GMT
... the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).Considering the hitherto male-dominated history of mankind, CEDAW was undoubtedly a milestone.What was formally ...
Harassment against women on 25 Nov 2009 01:53 GMT
... programmes is not applied in practical life, he added The Minister also claimed that discrimination against women in our society has been happening due to attitude of women against women. "The ...
Yemeni women face violence and discrimination 25 Nov 2009 15:58 GMT
... to the UN committee overseeing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to which Yemen is a party. On Friday 20 November, the Committee Against Torture ...
Women Struggle for Equality, Says Rights Lawyer [interview] 28 Nov 2009 19:32 GMT
... Mauritania formally adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2001, but in the eight years since, it has had limited effect on ...
Stop the violence against women 28 Nov 2009 05:33 GMT
... passed, since the signing of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); 15 years have elapsed since the adoption of the Inter-American Convention on the ...
Women's Struggle Has Been Vindicated [interview] 27 Nov 2009 10:30 GMT
... sense that, when I was a journalist in the 1970s, (the issue of the discrimination against women) was sometimes considered out of place (within the struggle against apartheid), to the point ...
Sixteen days of activism launched 26 Nov 2009 07:41 GMT
... and international obligations such as the Conventions in the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women. The Central Regional Minister, Madam Ama Benyewa-Doe, in an address read for her appealed ...

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High on the agenda are tighter legal measures against forced marriages and genital mutilation of women, as well as a ban on wearing the burka in public and special dispensation from swimming lessons for Muslim pupils. [01 Dec 2009 - 11:23]
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EAT rejects religious discrimination claim of Christian counsellor [01 Dec 2009 - 14:10]
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