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INDEPENDENT EXPERT ON CULTURAL
RIGHTS REPORT TO THE UN 2010
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IV. Areas of Concern and Priority
Issues for the Mandate
B.
Participation, Access and Contribution to Cultural Life, Without Any
Discrimination
3. A Gendered Perspective on Cultural Rights
62. Noting that "gender" is a social construction that, along with
attendant
gendered norms of behaviours, is changeable over time and contexts,
the Independent Expert will address specifically, the right of women and
girls (as well as boys and men) to participate in cultural life regardless
of their gender identity.
63. Noting that some cultural practices may be particularly detrimental
to the
rights of women and girls, and noting also in this regard the work of the
Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and
Consequences on the issues of culture, the Independent Expert will
pay
due attention to the need to implement cultural rights in a way that
is fully respectful of the rights of women and girls not to be discriminated
against
and that upholds all their human rights.
64. The Independent Expert will focus on the contribution of women and
girls
to the cultural development of communities they belong to, including their
contribution to the development of common values of those communities,
which
is pivotal to the implementation of their cultural rights.
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