Annual Report of the WG on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice 2012, para. 19a
Paragraph- Original document
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Paragraph text
[The Working Group will examine:] (a) The extent to which States have met the obligation to respect women's rights to equality and to the exercise and fulfilment by women of human rights and fundamental freedoms. This will involve surveying existing and newly introduced discriminatory laws and practices. The Working Group will pay special attention to the direct or indirect inclusion of discriminatory provisions in legislation or case law that apply discriminatory interpretations of statutory, customary, religious or deontological regulations. The Working Group will compile good practices in the elimination of laws and regulations that are both directly and indirectly discriminatory to women. The examination of good practices for this purpose would include constitutional amendments, judicial review, legislative reform, litigation and case law, policy and institutional reform, independent human rights monitoring, political action, and religious or cultural hermeneutic projects;
- Document legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document body
- Special Procedures: Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
- Document means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Document year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- WG Discrimination Against Women, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/20/28, para. 19a.
- Paragraph number
- 19a