30th junio 2022

CSO Declaration for the 4th LAC Regional Conference on Population and Development

This statement details civil society organizations’ concerns ahead of the upcoming (in 2023) 10th anniversary of the Montevideo Consensus, and urges States to take clear, specific measures, backed by sufficient economic resources, to guarantee all that was agreed to, especially sexual and reproductive rights, cultural and territorial rights, gender rights, ethnic rights, and rights of persons with disabilities, assuming them as part of universal human rights.

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This intersectional statement particularly highlights the need to address the additional vulnerabilities experienced by historically marginalized groups including afro-descendant women, indigenous women, girls, adolescents, young people, elderly people, pregnant people, people with disabilities, lesbians, bisexuals, trans people, and many other groups, as they are the ones who suffer the gravest consequences of inequality and poverty which were major problems even before the pandemic, and have only been aggravated by States’ narrow focus on the health crisis, to the neglect of other crises.

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Republic of Moldova: Submission to the CEDAW Committee on gender-based violence against women and girls

Equality Now and Moldovan organisations urge the CEDAW Committee to press the Republic of Moldova to close gaps in protection, justice and reparation for survivors of gender-based violence.

Kazakhstan: Joint submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 93rd Session, on gender-based violence against women and girls

Bangladesh Joint Stakeholder Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its 93rd session

Read this joint submission informing the CEDAW Committee’s List of Issues for Bangladesh, raising concerns on rape laws, marital rape, child marriage, family law and access to justice.

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