SOGI UN source Archives: Working Group on Discrimination Against Women
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/32/44, 17 June 2016
17. Women face a disproportionate risk of being subjected to humiliating and degrading treatment in health-care facilities, especially during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum period. Furthermore, they are especially vulnerable to degrading treatment in situations where they are deprived of liberty, including in migrant detention facilities or mental institutions. They are subjected to humiliating treatment […]
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/29/40/Add.3, 17 June 2015: Spain
III. Legislative and institutional frameworks A. Legislative framework 3. Same-sex marriage law 21. Spain adopted the Law on Same-Sex Marriage in 2005, thereby becoming one of the States in the world to have taken this step towards equality. The Constitutional Court upheld the constitutionality of the law in November 2012. D. Stereotypes and the media […]
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/29/40, 2 April 2015
III. Thematic analysis: eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space A. The cultural construction of gender 21. Women who do not conform to the gender stereotypes that predominate in some cultures and those who openly contest them, including within their own cultural or […]
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/26/39/Add.1, 16 September 2014: Iceland
III. Legal framework and policy measures, with a focus on the economic and financial crisis A. Legal framework 24. Legislative developments have also taken place in the area of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. The Marriage Act, adopted in 2010, establishes a gender-neutral definition of marriage and applies to both heterosexual and same-sex couples. […]
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/26/39/Add.2, 12 June 2014: China
VII. Women facing multiple forms of discrimination D. Lesbian, bisexual and transgender women 77. The Working Group is concerned that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in China are subject to multiple forms of discrimination and violence in educational establishments, workplaces and the family. According to the results of a survey in 2009, over a third […]
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/26/39, 1 April 2014
III. Thematic analysis: eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis B. Current state of legislation, structural and cultural barriers and Accountability[4] 8. Intersectionality and poverty 24. Although women at all economic levels, in high-, middle- and low-income countries, suffer from discrimination, they have primary responsibility for the […]