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See below, excerpts on Gender Issues
in Conclusions and/or Recommendations of Ghana Universal Periodic Review.
Only contributions submitted in one of the United Nations official languages are admissible and posted on this webpage Date of consideration: Monday 5 May 2008
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Excerts for GENDER ISSUES in GHANA UPR REPORT II. CONCLUSIONS AND/OR RECOMMENDATIONS - GHANA UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW 1. To take the necessary measures in order to reinforce the campaign against discriminatory practices and violence against women; to strengthen efforts in protecting women's rights, and to take further steps to address discrimination against women and vulnerable groups, including children; to take proactive measures to ensure the equality of women in all matters related to property inheritance and call for the international community to provide full technical and financial support as a way of improving the national machinery for the advancement of women. 2. To strengthen the funding and to effectively implement the 2007 Domestic Violence Act and strengthen the funding and improve the functioning of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Units within the Police Security. 5. To adopt legislative and other necessary measures including awareness-raising campaigns against harmful traditional practices and stereotypes; to continue to eradicate cultural practices that violate the rights of women and girls; to introduce measures to eliminate or modify customs and harmful traditional practices that discriminate against women, eliminate FGM, put an end to harmful widowhood rites and implement protective measures for this group in relation to eviction and inheritance, and halt the practice of trokosi; to establish and implement concrete measures in conformity with CEDAW to modify and eliminate customs and cultural and harmful traditional practices that discriminate against women, to take necessary measures to ensure that the prohibition of FGM has the desired effect on the ground; to adopt concrete grassroots programmes to sensitize communities to abolish cultural practices which violate the human rights, life and dignity of women and young girls. 9. To remove impediments women may face in gaining access to justice and take special measures, in collaboration with the CHRAJ, to enhance women's awareness of their rights, and legal literacy to claim their rights; to inform the general public on their rights and how to gain access to justice; and to expand the legal aid services, in particular to rural areas. 10. To take steps to address problems related to high illiteracy rates in certain parts of the country, as well as the gender gap between boys and girls in secondary and tertiary education; and to continue to give increased attention to the gender gap between girls and boys in their advancement at all levels of education. 19. To systematically and continuously integrate a gender perspective in the follow up process to the UPR, Universal Periodic Review. 22. To include a gender perspective and a rights-based approach in the implementation of the Rent Act (right to adequate housing) with the goal of overcoming gender-based inequalities.
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