Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 17

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Expressing concern about institutional and structural discrimination against women and girls, such as laws, policies, regulations, programmes, administrative procedures or structures and services that directly or indirectly regulate access to institutions, property and land ownership, health, education, employment and access to credit, which negatively affect women’s empowerment and increase their vulnerability to violence,

Document body
  • United Nations Human Rights Council
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Document year
  • 2014
Paragraph number
17