These laws are non discriminatory.

Prohibition of arbitrary and discriminatory laws

The laws relating to these Commissions are also non discriminatory.

Law reform efforts to eliminate discriminatory laws and to revise laws that have a discriminatory impact also contribute to enhancing an enabling environment for gender equality and empowerment of women.

Perhaps transitional laws would be needed during the changeover from the discriminatory system.

All these laws and rules are non discriminatory and impose no restrictions on women.

The laws considered to be discriminatory to women are discussed under Article 15 of the Convention.

She enquired whether the Government of Gabon had such plans and how it would abolish discriminatory laws.

19.1 States should neither adopt nor apply laws that prejudice the restitution process, in particular through arbitrary, discriminatory, or otherwise unjust abandonment laws or statutes of limitations.

Reiterates that States should neither adopt nor apply laws that prejudice the restitution process, in particular through arbitrary, discriminatory, or otherwise unjust abandonment laws or statutes of limitations

Many discriminatory laws had been repealed and new laws that guaranteed equality had been promulgated, but their implementation and impact on the daily lives of women were still limited.

The National Commission on the Status of Women has undertaken an exercise to examine laws considered to be discriminatory towards women.

Any unlawful act that is discriminatory is at variance with the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Tajikistan and entails liability.

In August 2003 the Commission also recommended the repeal of the Hudood Laws, which many people consider to be discriminatory towards women.

19.2 States should take immediate steps to repeal unjust or arbitrary laws and laws that otherwise have a discriminatory effect on the enjoyment of the right to housing, land and property restitution, and should ensure remedies for those wrongfully harmed by the prior application of such laws.

Various human rights bodies have paid close attention to the actual or potentially discriminatory effects of States' practices and laws in the struggle against terrorism.

Therefore, it was very important for the Government to take all measures to amend any discriminatory laws and bring them into line with the Convention.

UNIFEM supported the Sierra Leone Law Reform Commission to facilitate a series of national consultations on discriminatory laws and women's rights, leading to a gender equality bill.

Regrets that racially discriminatory immigration laws, policies and practices, including enforcement mechanisms, contribute to the persistence of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and in this context urges all States that have not yet done so to review and revise any racially discriminatory immigration laws, policies and practices so that they are free of racial discrimination and compatible with their obligations under international human rights instruments

This constitutional affirmation of equality is not always reflected in ordinary laws, such as the Civil Code, in which there are discriminatory provisions that have had to be amended.

States should take measures to curb discriminatory laws and practices and take initiatives such as the enactment of non discrimination legislation, including the prohibition of discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation.

The Conference also urged the Government of Myanmar to review its policies towards its Muslim citizens and to repeal the discriminatory laws against them, since they contravene human rights and human dignity.

Ms. Patten expressed concern at the persistence of discriminatory provisions in national laws and asked whether lack of resources, political will or support were obstacles to the proper functioning of the inter ministerial committee.

A large section of the population, particularly human rights and women's rights activists and organizations, are of the view that the laws, particularly Offences of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance are discriminatory towards women.

Discriminatory governmental policies

Noting that genocide is often facilitated and supported by discriminatory laws and practices or lack of effective enforcement of the principle of equality of persons irrespective of race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin,

The Ministry had also been working with UNDP and UNFPA to undertake an analysis of the laws and submit them to the inter ministerial committee with a view to eliminating any discriminatory provisions against women.

(b) To eliminate laws, regulations and practices that, in a discriminatory manner, prevent or restrict women's participation in the political process and to implement positive measures that would accelerate the achievement of equality between men and women

To be effective, a focus on microcredit has to be part of a more comprehensive policy framework that addresses women's poverty through, inter alia, property rights, access to natural resources and abolition of discriminatory laws and stereotypes.

3. States Parties shall take all appropriate steps, in accordance with international law, to ensure that laws protecting intellectual property rights do not constitute an unreasonable or discriminatory barrier to access by persons with disabilities to cultural materials.

In the case of unequal rights of ownership or inheritance, for instance, article 16 of the Convention and the Optional Protocol could be used as tools to repeal all the discriminatory laws that still existed in the country.

1.1 Gender discriminatory provisions are removed

These articles are totally non discriminatory.

While noting the State party's efforts to tighten up its laws and strengthen its institutions combating racial discrimination, the Committee notes that racist and xenophobic incidents, in particular against Arabs and Muslims, and discriminatory attitudes towards ethnic minorities are still encountered.

(c) Strengthen the rule of law and the reform of the justice system, including through training of the judiciary and police amend or abolish discriminatory laws, regulations, customs and practices and criminalize violence against women and girls, including domestic violence

In the legal sphere, her Government had worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to identify laws considered to be discriminatory, and an inter ministerial committee chaired by the Minister of Justice had been set up to review them.

Article 28 I(2) stipulates everyone is entitled to be free from discriminatory treatment on any basis and is entitled to be protected from discriminatory treatment .

The new text excludes several discriminatory articles and sections.

The Committee recalls that the definition of racial discrimination in article 1 expressly extends beyond measures which are explicitly discriminatory to encompass measures that are not discriminatory at face value but are discriminatory in fact and effect, that is, if they amount to indirect discrimination.

A special measure could appear discriminatory and still be construed as non discriminatory if one of its purposes was to overcome discrimination. Justice Crennan dismissed the appeal.

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In the author's view, this difference in treatment is discriminatory.

It also evoked the discriminatory concept of the virgin woman.

That opens the way for unilateral, discriminatory or coercive approaches.

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