Concerns Expressed on Women's Employment Opportunities, but Praise for Overall Human Rights Record
Officials Say Government Efforts to Promote Equality Impeded by Unemployment, Corporate Restructuring, Other Factors
Committee Hears of Effort to Meet Requirements Of United Nations Convention on Elimination of Discrimination
Dramatic gaps between the situation of urban and rural women in Peru were highlighted as the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women began considering Peru's combined third and fourth periodic reports on implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
While Peru's Constitution prohibited discrimination, the society's structural discrimination could not be eliminated without temporary special measures, the 23 experts on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women told representatives from Peru this afternoon.
As in many African countries where there was a great burden of servicing external debt, the three elements of political will, legislation and resources were all equally needed to implement positive changes for women, the Permanent Secretary of the United Republic of Tanzania's Ministry of Community Development, Women's Affairs and Children said this afternoon.
