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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 49 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women migrants are often at great risk of being subjected by public authorities or private individuals to all manner of violence, exploitation, trafficking and slavery while in transit or in detention. These practices can amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or torture. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 64 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The State must refrain from adopting laws, policies, measures or regulations that discriminate directly or indirectly against women and girls and must ensure that its officials, and private actors, respect this obligation in all contexts, including those situations where women are most vulnerable (as refugees, migrants or stateless persons, for example). | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 122 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Working Group recommends that States:] Provide protection against discrimination and abuse of migrant workers and domestic workers, and ratify and implement the ILO Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189). | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 53 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | General Recommendation No. 26 highlights that discrimination against women migrant workers may be especially acute in relation to pregnancy. However, there are some instances of good practice where, for example, the deportation of pregnant migrant workers was expressly prohibited by a High Court decision. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Compendium of good practices in the elimination of discrimination against women 2017, para. 88 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The active involvement of internally displaced women and civil society organizations was essential throughout the process. Displaced women brought hundreds of tutelas before tribunals to demand their rights and participated in public hearings convened by the Constitutional Court or civil society organizations sharing their experiences and perspectives. The Court’s decisions were informed by formal submissions by such organizations, presenting experiences of women and girls forcibly displaced around the country. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 52 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The pattern of physical, sexual and psychological abuse of migrant domestic workers is widespread. These women are often exposed to health and safety risks without being provided with proper information or adequate protection. Furthermore, the working and living conditions of many undocumented domestic workers, which are tantamount to slavery, and the separation from family members cause serious health, particularly mental health, problems. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Compendium of good practices in the elimination of discrimination against women 2017, para. 87 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In 2015, the Court issued an order declaring the persistence of failures in the assistance, protection and access to justice for women victims of sexual violence. That decision consolidated the constitutional framework to address the gendered impact of armed conflict on the forced displacement of women in the country. That protection framework — effectively transforming a government response to forced displacement using a gender perspective — is a pioneering example globally. That extraordinary achievement was partly due to the longstanding efforts by Latin American women’s movements to strengthen the capacities of the constitutional courts in the field of women’s rights. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Compendium of good practices in the elimination of discrimination against women 2017, para. 86 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Constitutional Court used its power to assess implementation of its own judgment, issuing two further orders on the rights of displaced women. In 2008, the Court handed down a decision that was considered a global pioneer in the treatment of sexual violence during internal armed conflict. It identified 10 risks that forcibly displaced women faced, including extreme risk of sexual violence, and 18 gender facets of displacement, including patterns of discrimination and violence. Accordingly, the Court ordered the Government to create and implement 13 programmes with a gender-sensitive approach, including violence prevention, the right to health and education and access to land, justice and reparations. The Court also took an intersectoral approach, highlighting heightened risks faced by girls, indigenous, black and community women leaders, and women with disabilities. The Court ordered the allocation of sufficient resources to guarantee implementation of the programmes, refusing to recognize lack of budget as valid justification for non-compliance. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 53 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Migrant women may be subject to mandatory pregnancy tests upon arrival in some countries; if the test is positive, they are dismissed and/or deported. Furthermore, pregnancy tests can be imposed on migrant domestic workers during the course of their employment, leading to pregnant women losing their jobs and/or seeking termination of the pregnancy, sometimes by means of unsafe practices, especially in countries that criminalize induced termination. Migrant women have been charged with "illegal sexual relationships" when they become pregnant, including following rape. They are held in detention centres in deplorable conditions pending their deportation, or face severe punishment, including the death penalty in countries where sexual relationships outside marriage are criminalized. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 50 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women migrant workers, especially those in irregular situations, have greater difficulty in accessing almost all forms of health care, including maternal care, emergency care and treatment for chronic diseases and mental health problems, because they are often denied these rights legally and/or they fear arrest and deportation. In some countries, while legal access to health care for migrant women has been expanded, they still do not receive needed medical services because health-care providers often refuse treat them. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 52 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women migrant workers face exploitation and abuse, often finding themselves in precarious employment without effective legal protections, particularly if they have irregular or undocumented legal status. About half of the world's migrant workers are women, most of them finding work in traditionally female-dominated occupations such as domestic work or in the garment and textile industries. General Recommendation No. 26 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, on women migrant workers, emphasizes that all categories of women migrants must be protected against discrimination. The ILO Migrant Workers Convention (No. 143) and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families also provide important protections. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 50 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women in the informal economy have, furthermore, been deeply affected by economic crisis. There is an "added worker" effect, whereby women enter the labour force to provide additional income security to the household, often forcing them into precarious work, migrant labour overseas or exposing them to trafficking. According to Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, nearly 40 per cent of street vendors interviewed in developing countries in 2009 had experienced an overall deterioration of employment and income levels, and 84 per cent of own-account home-based workers reported reduced monthly incomes. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in political and public life with a focus on political transition 2013, para. 86 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women and girls belonging to minority communities, rural and indigenous women, migrant women, refugee women and those seeking asylum, and poor women face discriminatory practices in the implementation of laws on nationality and citizenship. They face prejudicial attitudes as well as structural obstacles which limit access to formal registration of births, marriage, residence and other citizenship documents as well as to relevant information on their rights as citizens. Women who are de facto heads of households, including those who have been abandoned by their husbands, whose divorce is not legally registered, or whose husbands have been forcibly disappeared and do not have death certificates for their husbands , are denied recognition of their status in official documents. Without such access, women from these communities become disproportionately vulnerable in exercising their full and equal rights as citizens. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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