A/HRC/32/44 C. Communications and press releases 7. During the period under review, the Working Group addressed communications to Governments, individually or jointly with other mandate holders. The communications concerned a wide range of subjects falling within its mandate, including discriminatory legislation and practices with regard to marital status, nationality, allegations of abuses of women human rights defenders and violations of their rights, gender-based violence and rights to reproductive and sexual health (see A/HRC/30/27, A/HRC/31/79 and A/HRC/32/53). The Working Group also issued press releases, individually or jointly with other mandate holders, treaty bodies and regional mechanisms. D. Other activities 8. On 15 June 2015, a member of the Working Group participated in a panel discussion on making social policy work for women at a workshop titled “Substantive equality for women: connecting human rights and public policy” organized by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the United Nations Institute for Social Development and OHCHR. 9. The Working Group, jointly with several special procedures, sent an open letter to the President of the Human Rights Council on 3 July 2015, in which it emphasized the importance of placing women’s right to equality at the centre of discussions in the Council on the protection of the family. 10. A member of the Working Group participated as a panellist in an OHCHR global seminar on the human rights of migrant domestic workers in an irregular situation, titled “Behind closed doors”, held on 28 and 29 September 2015 in Bangkok. 11. A member of the Working Group gave a presentation at the expert consultation on gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment organized on 5 and 6 November 2015 by the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. III. Thematic analysis: eliminating discrimination against women with regard to health and safety1 A. Conceptual framework 12. The present report aims to clarify the meaning of equality in the area of health and safety, identify discriminatory practices, expose the instrumentalization of women’s bodies in violation of their human dignity and reveal the barriers to women’s autonomous, effective and affordable access to health care. Instrumentalization is defined as the subjection of women’s natural biological functions to a politicized patriarchal agenda, which aims at maintaining and perpetrating certain ideas of femininity versus masculinity or of women’s subordinate role in society. 1 4 The analysis contained in the present report has a minimal number of footnotes owing to word limit restrictions. A version of the report with full references can be found at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WGWomen/Pages/WGWomenIndex.aspx. The report relies on WHO and UNAIDS sources for health data and draws upon the work of OHCHR and international human rights mechanisms, including the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the special procedures mandates on health, persons with disabilities, food, older persons, water and sanitation, and indigenous peoples.