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Concluding Observations, E/C.12/GAB/CO/1, 29 November 2013: Gabon

Nov 29, 2013

12. The Committee regrets the discrimination and stigmatization of all low-income and marginalized individuals and groups, including women, persons with disabilities, lesbian, gay and bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) persons, children born out of wedlock, migrant...

Concluding Observations, CAT/C/POL/CO/5-6, 19 November 2013: Poland

Nov 19, 2013

Vulnerable groups 25. The Committee notes the adoption of the Equal Treatment Act in 2010 and the provisions of the Penal Code prohibiting hate crimes (arts. 119, 256 and 257), but considers that neither the Act nor the Penal Code provide adequate and specific...

Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, A/68/333, 19 August 2013

Aug 19, 2013

III. Poverty and racism B. The intersection of poverty and racism 2. The right to health 37. The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, has noted that “it is those who are the most vulnerable in society due to gender, ancestry,...

Concluding Observations, CAT/C/GTM/CO/5-6, 21 June 2013: Guatemala

Jun 21, 2013

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community 22. While noting the delegation of the State party’s statement that the problem is now being tackled, the Committee is concerned about reports of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, A/HRC/23/49/Add.5, 3 June 2013

Jun 3, 2013

B. Central and South-Eastern Europe and Baltics Consultation 3. Law, policy and institutional responses 18. There are specialist laws addressing domestic violence in most States. All States have some provision by which a protection order can be granted by the courts....