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Feb. 20, 2025, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Multiple organisations, such as Mirabel Centre, WardC and Warif, partly financed by local and federal governments, provide medical, psychological and legal support to survivors, and training to doctors, police officers and judges working on cases of gender-based and sexual violence" (para 15).
Feb. 15, 2025, 1:20 p.m.
Countries: Israel
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Despite those accomplishments, the war has come at a low point for women’s representation in government, which is currently the most far-right in the country’s history. The war cabinet, assembled after Oct. 7, includes two former chiefs of staff and a general, but no women" (par. 20).
Feb. 14, 2025, 7:07 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"The Public Sector Equality Duty requires state bodies to promote sex equality in their public functions, including commissioning services. These bodies, and the Government itself, are required to undertake a sex equality impact assessment of central and local commissioning of sexual violence and abuse services to ensure that the process of commissioning, and the services commissioned, are adequate and legally compliant" (3).
Feb. 6, 2025, 7:27 p.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"{Morocco has adopted or established] The National Commission for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in June 2022...The 2030 national strategy to combat violence against women and girls...The national integrated programme for the economic empowerment of women and girls 'Maroc-Attamkine', aimed at increasing the employment rate for women to 30 per cent" (2). "The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Build the capacity of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police officers with regard to human rights, in particular women’s rights, including by making training on the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendations a mandatory part of their professional training" (5). "The Committee remains concerned, however, about information indicating that...more
Feb. 6, 2025, 7:05 p.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Members of the National Commission for the Care of Women Victims of Violence have been appointed. Their tasks include national communication and coordination between government-sector interventions and the central departments dealing with violence against women and monitoring the work of regional and local committees" (4). "In order to promote and protect the civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of women, a range of constitutional institutions have been established, including the Gender Parity and Anti-Discrimination Authority. Act 79-14 provides for the composition, powers and functions of that body. Its job is to monitor all forms of discrimination against women, receive and follow up complaints, offer its views and make...more
Feb. 6, 2025, 3:58 p.m.
Countries: Sri Lanka
Variables: GP-DATA-3, GP-DATA-4

"Saroja Savithri Paulraj [is] the women’s affairs minister" (para 31).
Feb. 3, 2025, 9:51 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"To address this, in February 2019, nine Chinese central government agencies, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the All-China Women’s Federation, jointly outlined specific measures for implementing existing laws that prohibit gender discrimination in employment" (6).
Jan. 30, 2025, 7:52 p.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"The Committee commends the State party on its multisectoral delegation, which was headed by the State Secretary at the Office for Women’s Affairs, Doris Yolany Garcia Paredes" (1). "The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to improve its institutional and policy framework aimed at accelerating the elimination of discrimination against women and promoting gender equality, such as the adoption and establishment of the following: (a) Gender Equality Observatory, as a mechanism for the monitoring of the implementation of gender mainstreaming in all State institutions, in 2019; (b) Strategic Plan against Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons (2016–2022)" (2). "The Committee remains concerned about: (a) The lack of independence, impartiality...more
Jan. 29, 2025, 8:02 p.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Since taking power, Milei has eliminated the ministry of women and dissolved the undersecretariat for protection against gender violence" (para 12). "The administration also aims to overturn Micaela’s Law, which establishes mandatory training in gender issues for public employees" (para 14).
Jan. 29, 2025, 7:35 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"The Committee commends the State party on its high-level delegation, which was headed by the Executive President of the National Institute for Women, Adilia Caravaca Zúñiga" (1). "The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to improve its institutional and policy framework aimed at accelerating the elimination of discrimination against women and promoting gender equality, such as the adoption of the following: (a) National policy for addressing and preventing violence against women for 2017–2032; (b) National policy for effective equality of women and men in Costa Rica for 2018–2030" (2). "The Committee notes with concern: (a) That hate speech and threats by extremist groups against the National Institute for Women risk...more
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:03 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"At government level equality is under the Ministry of Food, Fisheries, Equality and Nordic Cooperation. Danish Women’s Society is concerned that this reflects the priority of equality in Denmark and contributes to the slow progress of the domestication of CEDAW in Denmark" (1). "In the previous review the Committee expressed its concern about the lack of gender-disaggregated data for violence against women, which should include disaggregated data by age, nationality, ethnicity and relationship with the perpetrator. Danish Women’s Society is pleased to see that data quality and collection has improved and that detailed data is increasingly available. The data is collected broadly at different sources and it is expected that...more
Jan. 28, 2025, 7:59 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Nevertheless, the State has made considerable efforts to uphold the rights already secured by women in Costa Rica and make progress towards extending such rights to all... and mainstreaming and strengthening a gender perspective in areas of institutional work that had not been addressed previously" (2). "The report is complemented by the national policy for effective equality between women and men 2018–2030 and the national policy for addressing and preventing violence against women 2017–2032, and other interinstitutional programmes, projects and strategies aimed at improving capacity-building and accountability in the area of women’s human rights. In 2011, an interinstitutional platform was created, coordinated by the National Institute for Women. A total...more
Jan. 24, 2025, 7:48 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Initiatives are aimed at improving the prosecution of femicide cases by bolstering due diligence and training forensic doctors and court officials to incorporate a gender perspective into their work. The Office also works with the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence Against Women (Conavim) on gender-based violence emergency policies, and provides psychosocial support to victims" (para 20-21).
Jan. 23, 2025, 6:57 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"These feelings have been validated by South Korea's now disgraced and suspended President, Yoon Suk Yeol, who came to power in 2022 on an anti-feminist platform, claiming gender discrimination no longer existed, and has since tried to dismantle the government's gender equality ministry" (para 28).
Jan. 23, 2025, 4:47 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"States are specifically required to have 'executive policies or plans of action to eliminate violence against women.' Despite playing a leading role in promoting National Action Plans at the UN Human Rights Council, Canada has failed to live up to this obligation domestically. Many governments specifically called on Canada to commit to developing a National Action Plan when Canada’s human rights record was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2018. In June 2017, the federal government launched It’s Time: Canada’s Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence. Alongside a broad coalition of women’s rights and equality-seeking organizations, Amnesty International has underscored the strategy’s insufficiency because it only...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"'Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women!' Mexico’s National Institute for Women wrote in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The government organization called the decision a 'big step' toward gender equality (par. 6). The National Institue for WOmen is a government orginization looking at issues regardin women (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 16, 2025, 9:45 p.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Law 29785, on the right to Prior Consultation, established that consultation is binding, but not its result. The Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP) tried without success to incorporate the gender perspective. The National Organization of Indigenous, Andean and Amazonian Women of Peru (ONAMIAP) indicates, for example, that in the consultation process of Lot 195, only 1 woman and 11 men participated; 2 women and 14 men participated in Lot 175, because in some communities women are not classified as community members, or because there is resistance to their effective participation" (6). "Since 2015, Law N ° 30364 has been in force, Law to prevent, punish and eradicate violence...more
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"The drafting process was entrusted to the Ministry of Human Rights as the body responsible for the preparation of reports submitted to the human rights bodies of the universal and regional systems, in coordination with the National Institute for Women as the lead institution for public policies on women’s rights in Honduras" (3). "In connection with the recommendation contained in paragraph 7 on the steps taken by the National Congress, the General Provisions of the Income and Expenditure Budget of the Republic are approved annually and include a gender perspective as an affirmative action to close the discrimination gap between men and women and to implement the Convention. Through the...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:08 p.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"An interdepartmental working group, specially set up by a Government order in the course of the multilateral and bilateral working meetings, including consultations with interested non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has developed an action plan for the implementation of the Committee’s concluding observations, which was approved by Government Order No. 123-r of 19 April 2017" (1). "The National Strategy for the Achievement of Gender Equality by 2020, approved by Government Decision No. 443 of 27 June 2012, defines the priorities of the State gender policy. Specific measures for its implementation in the coming period are set out in the latest (fifth) National Plan of Action for Gender Equality for the years 2018–2020....more
Jan. 9, 2025, 3:57 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: GP-DATA-3, GP-DATA-4

"Women's Safety Minister Amanda Rishworth said the national plan could be broken down into four key planks - prevention, early intervention, response and healing and recovery" (para 13). "'It's encouraging all Australian governments have backed the plan and its ambitious target to end gender-based violence within a generation,' National Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins said" (para 23). "NT minister for prevention of domestic, family and sexual violence Kate Worden said the plan's focus on protecting Indigenous women was vital" (para 25).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:36 a.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"Since Milei took office in December 2023, he has closed down the ministry of women and gender, while his government contends that 'violence has no gender'" (para 21). "Her violent death reignited the protests across the country, and in 2019 Micaela’s Law was created, requiring all levels of government to train officials on violence against women. But now Milei has initiated plans to narrow the scope of this law, by restricting training to questions only of 'family violence'. According to Amnesty, Milei’s amendments would also limit training only to state officials 'competent in the matter' and 'move away from addressing gender-based violence as a structural problem'" (para 23-25).more
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:53 a.m.
Countries: Chile
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"'In general, Chile is more advanced than other countries in the region in terms of women’s participation in politics,' said Antonia Orellana, whom Boric chose to lead the ministry of women and gender equality" (para 4).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:43 a.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"With the government’s stance against gender equality, such as pushing to abolish the gender equality ministry, the response to the low birthrate will inevitably be a futile effort" (para 28).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:06 a.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"The former economist and TV pundit has also pledged to close the Ministry for Women, Gender and Diversity" (para 10).
Jan. 8, 2025, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Tajikistan
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"On 8 May 2019, the Government Commission on ensuring compliance with international human rights obligations adopted a second national plan of action for the implementation of the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concerning the sixth periodic report of Tajikistan (hereinafter — the national plan of action), which was successfully implemented during the reporting period" (p. 4). "In accordance with the national plan of action, during the period 2019–2022 the Committee on Women and the Family under the Government of Tajikistan organized 12 conferences, 220 round tables and 190 meetings for civil servants and law enforcement agencies at which it circulated the text of the...more
Jan. 4, 2025, 12:11 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: GP-DATA-3

“A 2016 survey by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family found the incidence of intimate-partner violence at 41.5 percent, significantly higher than the global average of 30 percent. While 4B’s adherents may hope to change society — through demonstrations and online activism, and by modeling an alternative lifestyle to other women — they are not trying to change the men whom they view as their oppressors. It is too soon to tell whether this movement can survive and thrive over the long haul. But its ideas and actions have already affected the country’s online discourse, its politics, and most of all, individual women’s lives” (para 7).more
Dec. 13, 2024, 4:38 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"'The Yoon administration is trying to rationalize the abolishment of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family by making the baseless claim that systemic sexism does not exist and ignoring the suffering of so many women in society'" (para 10).
Dec. 6, 2024, 8:40 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"For Blessing Madaki, who works with the government’s Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, the various programmes and policies aimed at empowering Nigerian women are moving the dial" (para 22).
Dec. 6, 2024, 8:28 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: GP-DATA-3, GP-DATA-4

"Minister for Women Katy Gallagher said the reforms are fundamental in reducing violence against women across society" (para 15).
Dec. 5, 2024, 6:07 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"The opening of a 'hijab removal treatment clinic' was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice" (para 2).