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RESOLUTION ON WOMEN'S EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SESSION 12 - 2009

 

FULL 5-PAGE RESOLUTION IS ATTACHED.

 

            15.       Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a thematic study on women’s equality before the law, including an assessment on how the issue is addressed throughout the United Nations human rights system, in consultation with States, relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms and agencies, including the Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the agencies within the United Nations composite entity on gender equality and empowerment of women and all other relevant stakeholders, taking into account the efforts made in this regard, particularly by the Commission on the Status of Women, and to include recommendations on the ways and means the Council can engage with States in the fulfilment of their obligations and commitments to eliminate discriminatory laws against women;

            16.       Decides to address the above-mentioned thematic study, including conclusions and recommendations, at its fourteenth session, and to hold a half-day discussion on the issue in order to consider taking further possible action on discrimination against women at that session.

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A/HRC/12/L.3/Rev.1

1 October 2009

Original:  ENGLISH


HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Twelfth session
Agenda item 3

                PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL,
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS,
                   INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Albania*, Andorra*, Argentina, Armenia*, Austria*, Benin*, Bolivia
(Plurinational State of), Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada
*, Chile, Colombia*,
Congo*, Costa Rica*, Czech Republic*, Denmark*, Djibouti, Ecuador*,
France, Hungary, Israel
*, Italy, Kenya*, Liechtenstein*, Luxembourg*,
Maldives
*, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama*, Peru*, Rwanda*, Slovenia,
        Spain
*, Switzerland*, Turkey*, Ukraine, Uruguay:  draft resolution

12/…  Elimination of discrimination against women

            The Human Rights Council,

            Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, its Purposes and Principles,

            Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,







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