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/23/50, 19 April 2013
III. Thematic analysis: eliminating discrimination against women in political and public life with a focus on political transition B. Targets and achievements in women’s representation 28. The Working Group is concerned that the knowledge gap remains on the whole spectrum of women’s participation in political and public life. This undermines the capacity to move to […]
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/23/50/Add.1, 15 March 2013: Moldova
III. The legal framework and its implementation: improvements and challenges 17. Article 171 of the Criminal Code defines and sanctions rape and provides for a number of aggravating circumstances such as recidivism and age of the victim. Article 172 sanctions “homosexuality or satisfying sexual needs in perverted forms committed through the physical or mental […]
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, A/HRC/20/28, 5 April 2012
III. Conceptual framework 13. For legal guarantees of gender equality to benefit all women, implementation frameworks and strategies must be responsive to the intersections of sex-based discrimination with other grounds of discrimination, such as race, ethnicity, religion or belief, language, political affiliation, health, status, age, class, caste, national or social origin, property, birth, and sexual […]