Title: Project on a mechanism to address laws that discriminate against women

Authors: Banda, Fareda

Place: [Geneva]

Publisher: Office of the High Commissioner for human rights (OHCHR). Women's rights and gender unit

Year: 2008

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Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: women, sex discrimination, law, un

Abstract: Advisability of creating a new mechanism to address laws that discriminate against women was examined with 2 objectives: to overview existing UN mechanisms to ascertain the extent to which they addressed the issue of discriminatory law, and to get national data on discriminatory laws against women.

URL: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/laws_that_discriminate_against_women.pdf

Document type: Portal