SOGI UN keywords Archives: Multiple discrimination
Concluding Observations, CEDAW/C/KGZ/CO/4, 6 March 2015: Kyrgyzstan
C. Principle (sic) areas of concern and recommendations Definition of discrimination against women and discriminatory laws 9. The Committee notes the adoption of a new Constitution by the State party in 2010 and of the Law on State Guarantees of Equal Rights and Opportunities for Men and Women, of 2008, which provides a definition of […]
Concluding Observations, CEDAW/C/VEN/CO/7-8, 14 November 2014: Venezuela
C. Principal areas of concern and recommendations Disadvantaged groups of women 36. The Committee regrets the lack of effective measures taken to address discrimination and violence faced by disadvantaged groups of women, such as indigenous and Afro-descendant women, migrant women, older women and women with disabilities, as well as lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex women, […]
Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, A/69/318, 15 August 2014
17. The Working Group found that despite Government commitment and initiatives in the area of law and policy, the dismantling of racial discrimination remained slow. Afro-Brazilians constituted more than half of the population, yet they were underrepresented and invisible in the major power structures, the media and the private sector. Institutional racism, discrimination and xenophobia […]
Concluding Observations, CEDAW/C/PER/CO/7-8, 24 July 2014: Peru
D. Principal areas of concern and recommendations Stereotypes, discriminatory practices and violence against women 17. The Committee notes initiatives by the State party to combat gender stereotypes and violence against women, but remains concerned about the: (c) Fact, as identified by the State party in its report and during the dialogue, that some groups of […]
Concluding Observations, CEDAW/C/PER/CO/7-8, 1 July 2014: Peru
Stereotypes, discriminatory practices and violence against women 17. The Committee notes initiatives by the State party to combat gender stereotypes and violence against women, but remains concerned about the: (c) Fact, as identified by the State party in its report and during the dialogue, that some groups of women, such as women living in poverty, […]
General Recommendation No. 32 on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, CEDAW/C/GC/32, 14 November 2014
II. Scope of the general recommendation 6. The Committee has, in previous general recommendations, clarified that articles 1, 2 (f) and 5 (a) of the Convention read together indicate that the Convention covers sex- and gender-based discrimination against women. The Committee has explained that application of the Convention to gender-based discrimination falls under the definition […]