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Gender-based discrimination is prohibited under almost every human rights treaty. Despite much progress made in securing women’s rights globally, millions of women and girls continue to experience discrimination and violence, being denied of their equality, dignity and autonomy, and even a life.
8 mar 2022 · Gendered laws and policies are associated with fewer girls enrolled in primary and secondary education; fewer women in skilled work; fewer women owning land or property; fewer women accessing financial and health services; and higher rates of domestic, family, and sexual violence.
8 mar 2022 · Over the past decades, the international community has established important normative frameworks on gender equality and non-discrimination. Chief of them is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Women prisoners are at a particular risk of sexual violence and other forms of abuse. Upholding the rule of law, and achieving equal access to justice for all, requires a gender-sensitive approach that recognizes, and redresses discrimination and structural inequalities of this kind.
Sex, sexual orientation and gender. European non-discrimination law, as constituted in particular by the EU non-discrimination directives, and Article 14 of and Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibits discrimination across a range of contexts and grounds.
Gender-based violence is when violent acts are committed against women and LGBTI people on the basis of their orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics. Gender based violence happens to women and girls in disproportionate numbers.
Definition of discrimination against women: any distinction, exclusion, or restriction, made on the basis of sex, with the purpose or effect of impairing the enjoyment by women of political, economic, social, cultural, or civil human rights on equal footing with men.
