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From Equality Now...

Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing +15 Review Process

Equality Now has just issued Women’s Action 16.10, Update February 2010 – Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing +15 Review Process, which includes a representative sampling of explicitly discriminatory laws with respect to personal status (suffrage, citizenship, evidence, travel, prostitution), economic status (inheritance, property, employment) and marital status (marriage, divorce, polygamy, wife obedience), and in addressing violence against women (rape, domestic violence, honor killings, state sanctions). The report calls on governments to ensure that the laws mentioned, and any other discriminatory laws in force, are repealed or amended as a matter of urgency.

For Women’s Action 16.10 please click on the following link: http://equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_1610_en.html
 
Please sign our petition calling on the 36 governments featured in our report to repeal their discriminatory laws: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6208/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1567

Your earlier support has led to some governments repealing or amending their discriminatory laws.  We hope that you will continue to support this and our other Women's Action campaigns.

If you would like to make a contribution to Equality Now, please click here: https://www.equalitynow.org/english/support/support_join_en.html