Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

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Women and gender issues

WOM/1740

Under Examination by Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee, Denmark Underscores Push to Protect Women’s Employment, Curb Domestic Violence, Human Trafficking

Denmark had established strong institutional mechanisms, including a Minister for Gender Equality and a complaints board, to protect women’s rights in the labour market and curb domestic violence and human trafficking for sexual exploitation, the Deputy Permanent Secretary of Denmark’s Department for Gender Equality told the Committee monitoring State parties’ compliance with the Women’s Convention today.
WOM/1739

As Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee Begins Review of Country Reports, Spain Boasts Sweeping Legislative Changes, Facing Problems ‘Without Embarrassment’

Spain had made sweeping moves to empower and legally protect women since Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero took office in 2004, including enactment of laws to erase gender inequality and gender-based violence, as well as action plans to help the country’s most socially and economically vulnerable women gain access to health care, education, employment and housing, Spain’s first ever Minister of Equality, Bibiana Aido Almagro, said this afternoon.
WOM/1738

Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee Opens Session, Spurred to Raise Visibility, Strengthen Impact of Women’s Convention in Thirtieth Year of Operation

This year, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women should seize the opportunity of the thirtieth anniversary of the women’s rights Convention and the tenth anniversary of its Optional Protocol to raise their visibility and strengthen their impact for the sake of women worldwide, with the ultimate aim of getting more States to ratify both instruments and withdraw any reservations to them, Naela Gabr, Committee Chair said this morning.
WOM/1737

Expert Committee to Review Compliance of 11 Countries with Women’s Anti-Discrimination Convention, in New York, 20 July–7 August

Domestic violence, political participation, discriminatory family law, eliminating stereotypes and preventing trafficking will be among the areas explored by a committee of 23 experts charged with ensuring that Governments eliminate discrimination against women, when it meets in New York from 20 July to 7 August at United Nations Headquarters.