Pre-Report Questionnaire by UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law & Practice - RESPONSES from Member States & Other Stakeholders

To inform its thematic report, the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice circulated a questionnaire about “Non-discrimination and equality with regard to health and safety”. Responses were received from different stakeholders, including Members States, civil society organizations and other actors, and contributions on issues related to the theme, submitted by several partners.

Thematic report on Health and Safety, to be presented at the 32th session of the Human Rights Council (June 2016) - A/HRC/32/44

Questionnaire responses

The QUESTIONNAIRE is available in English, French and Spanish.

Responses from Member States:

• Argentina

• Australia

• Belarus

• Bulgaria

• Burkina Faso

• Cameroon

• Chile

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• Dominica

• El Salvador

• Estonia

• Finland

• Greece

• Guatemala

• Haiti

• Honduras

• Iran

• Israel

• Kazakhstan

• Kuwait

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• Kyrgyzstan

• Lebanon

• Malta

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• Mauritius

• Mexico

• Moldova

• Morocco

• Oman

  A | E

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Seychelles

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Spain

• Switzerland

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• Syria

  A | E

• Turkey

• Turkmenistan

• Ukraine

• Zimbabwe  

Responses from other stakeholders:

• ABUBEF – Burundi

• Action Canada for Sexual health and rights – Canada

• ADHRB USA – Bahrein

• Aid Organization – Bangladesh

• ASFF – Seychelles

• Asociación mujeres juristas themis – Spain

• BALANCE / Promoción para el desarollo y juventud – Mexico

• BECOLIN – Nigeria

• BGRF Rodilnitza – Bulgaria

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• Blessing Life Foundation Trust – India

• CEMO – Mozambique

• Center for the Study of Adolescence – Kenya

• Centro de derechos de mujeres – Honduras

• Centro Ideas – Peru

• CFAD – Democratic Republic of Congo

• NGO coalition – Spain 

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• CONAFED - Democratic Republic of Congo

• Corporación MILES – Chile

• Eucharia Help Foundation – Nigeria

• FAWE – Kenya

• FOKAD - Democratic Republic of Congo

• Fundación CEMOPLAF – Ecuador

• GDPAS – Bangladesh

• Gerencia de salud – Colombia

• Global Health Awareness Research Foundation – Nigeria

• Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida – México

• G-WAP – Ghana

• IPAS – Bolivia

• IPAS – México

• Juzoor for Health and Social Development – Palestine

• KHPT – India

• Nazra for Feminist Studies – Egypt

• NORSAAC – Ghana

• Organizaciones de Mujeres para la Participación y la Igualdad – Spain

• PND – Rwanda

• Promsex – Peru

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• Red Elephant Foundation – India

• Rift Valley Voluntary Counsellors – Kenya

• RODA Parents in Action – Croatia

• Rujewa Intergrated Efforts to fight poverty – Tanzania

• Safecity – India

• Servicio Internacional Britanico – Bolivia

• Sexual ni asistence – Czech Republic

• Social transformation NGO – Kenya

• Surkuna – Ecuador

• SWODIA – Uganda

• Syndicat des sages-femmes pour l’accouchement à domicile – France

• Tanadgoma – Georgia

• Tanzania Community Care Organization – Tanzania

• Turnstone Global – India

• UGANET – Uganda

• Union Women Center – Georgia

• United Nations Association Mwanza branch – Tanzania

• VUGDAM – Burundi

• Women’s advocacy and communication network – Cameroon

• Youth Alliance for Career Development - Uganda

Written submissions:

• Adoption Rights Alliance and JFM Research

• Amnesty International

• Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWEK)

• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children

• Handicap International and Making it Work

• ILGA

• Institute of Development Studies

• International Community of Women Living with HIV

• IPAS

• Legal Resources Centre South Africa

• Penal Reform International

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• Rodilnitza Bulgaria

• Women Enabled International

• Women of the Jaguar Taíno Warrior Society (Guarixeno ‘Aroá Taíno Guaríbono) - “Bohio Atabei Mujeres de la Yuka” Caribbean Indigenous Women’s Circle

• World Blind Union

UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law & in Practice – Website:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WGWomen/Pages/WGWomenIndex.aspx

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WGWomen/Pages/GoodpracticesintheeliminationofDAW.aspx

Извор: WUNRN – 06.04.2017