Women and gender issues

1 October 1998

Press Release
WOM/1075

20 August 1998

Press Release
WOM/1074/Rev.1*

EXPERT MEETING ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES AT HEADQUARTERS, 20 AUGUST

19980820 Measures to Address Domestic Violence in Five Regions Examined

20 August 1998

Press Release
WOM/1074

10 July 1998

Press Release
WOM/1073

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES NINETEENTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 JUNE - 10 JULY

19980710 Adopts Recommendations on Reports of New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania

8 July 1998

Press Release
WOM/1072

LEGISLATIVE MEASURES NEEDED TO ERASE GENDER DISPARITIES IN NEW ZEALAND, COMMITTEE EXPERTS SAY

19980708

Concerns Expressed on Women's Employment Opportunities, but Praise for Overall Human Rights Record

8 July 1998

Press Release
WOM/1071

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE HEARS OF NEW ZEALAND'S EFFORTS TO WIDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN

19980708 'Family-Friendly' Policies Described, Also Programmes for Maori and Pacific Groups

7 July 1998

Press Release
WOM/1070

REPUBLIC OF KOREA CLAIMS ADVANCEMENT FOR WOMEN, CONCEDING MORE WORK NEEDED TO OVERCOME PATRIARCHAL TRADITIONS

19980707

Committee Hears of Effort to Meet Requirements Of United Nations Convention on Elimination of Discrimination

7 July 1998

Press Release
WOM/1069

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD OF ADVERSE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC CRISIS ON SITUATION OF WOMEN IN REPUBLIC OF KOREA

19980707

Officials Say Government Efforts to Promote Equality Impeded by Unemployment, Corporate Restructuring, Other Factors

6 July 1998

Press Release
WOM/1067

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TAKES UP REPORT OF PERU ON STEPS TO IMPLEMENT CONVENTION

19980706

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.

6 July 1998

Press Release
WOM/1068

SPECIAL MEASURES NEEDED TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM `STRUCTURAL DISCRIMINATION' IN PERU, COMMITTEE ASSERTS

19980706

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.