Ireland's far reaching equality legislation included the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000.

In addition to the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act he had just mentioned, equality was promoted by an Equality Authority.

(c) Rights relating to women apos s status and equality in society.

The Fourth World Conference on the Status of Women underscored the idea of gender equality into the dialogue of women's issues.

There is also the issue of whether equality of rights equals identicality of status, a question the Special Representative noted in his last report.

The constitution guaranteed equality between men and women and prohibited discrimination on the basis of, inter alia, sex, pregnancy and marital status.

Securing equality of women is achieved by strengthening of their status, education and their active participation in decision making process in all social sectors.

Study of the proposed regulations governing the National Office for Equality for Women and make recommendations concerning its legal status, functions and structure.

Substantive issues Recognition as a person before the law, discrimination on grounds of birth status, equality before the law, right to life, inhuman treatment

15. Notwithstanding the fact that the status of women has changed much for the better in the past few decades and that women now formally enjoy complete equality with men, equality in fact is still lacking in a number of areas.

Since the application of the Swiss authorities' principle of equality of treatment of international organizations, the status of UPU is currently considered identical to other Swiss based organizations.

The current Government is also working to improve the status of women in a society in which women are yet to achieve equality with men.

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(c) Eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and the girl child, affording gender equality in status and standing before and protections under the law UNICEF

In that regard, Ghana has established a Ministry of Women's and Children's Affairs to spearhead policies and programmes to promote gender equality and enhance the status of women.

The Office on the Status of Women operated within the Office of the Deputy President and was mandated to translate government objectives of gender equality into meaningful government programmes.

A single, secular, national Civil Code governing personal status was essential to strengthen equality in society and to help the Government in its implementation of the Convention.

. As an integral part of the programme, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute held a course in 1994 and 1995 on the equal status and human rights of women, focusing on human rights and gender related issues, international standards of equality and policies aimed at enhancing gender equality.

The status of women, protected in the 1946 Law on Equality of the Sexes, was also protected in the constitution and in labour, education, public health, civil and family law.

The Human Rights Act recognises and acknowledges the right to equality and prohibits discrimination based on sex, marital status, family status and pregnancy as well as on lawful source of income, all of which have the potential to alleviate and prevent discrimination against women.

The mandate of the Office for Gender Equality for its part covered a wide range of issues, one of which involved cooperation with Roma organizations concerned with the status of Roma women.

A framework committee was developing guidelines on employment equality policies, recruitment and equal status, based mainly on best practices, and disseminating them to employers and organizations.

Also, on an issue taken up at the previous meeting, she asked if Traveller women could appeal to the Equality Tribunal on the combined grounds of gender and Traveller status.

Works are still being carried out on similar contracts and public institutions with independent status, which should lead to an actual equality of rights of all subjects within primary health care services.

(e) Equality of opportunity

Equality of the sexes

EQUALITY OF CIVIL RIGHTS

The equality of women?

Throughout the year, we lobbied for the Draft European Constitution to include the equality of women as a fundamental value of the EU and to eliminate Article 51, granting special status to churches .

HUMAN RIGHTS STATUS OF WOMEN Human rights are the cornerstone of Soroptimist service in the UN Decade for Human Rights Education, the focus of Sl's work has been on the principle of equality between genders.

The Commission for Social Development should draw upon the work of the Commission on the Status of Women in the evaluation of measures adopted by the Summit that relate to various aspects of gender equality.

Promotion of equality of opportunity

The Gender Equality Act stipulates an obligation of employers actively to promote gender equality.

The State party should review its laws in order to ensure equality between men and women in matters of personal status, and to eliminate any discrimination against women in the Penal Code.

Of course, women s changing status may not translate immediately into growing political influence. And the rest of Europe might never follow the example of Scandinavia, where gender equality has advanced much further than anywhere else.

A Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Status of Women was established in 2004. As of June 2005, the Committee has released reports on funding of women's equality seeking organizations, gender based analysis and pay equity.

Full equality of genders shall be guaranteed in all spheres of life, particularly in education, economy, employment and work, social and health protection, sports, culture, public life and media, regardless of marital or family status.

I am hopeful that we will be able to elaborate on the importance of the minimum standards of absolute political equality set forth in the legitimate political status options of integration, free association, or independence.

The Office for Gender Equality had organized a conference on the status of women in the labour market to discuss its recent findings with non governmental organizations, which were also aware of the problem.

3. In this line of thinking, the Peruvian State bases itself on equality before the law, with no discrimination whatsoever on grounds of origin, race, sex, language, religion, opinion, economic or any other status.

Yet equality before the law was not the same as equality in rights or gender equality.

EQUALITY OF WOMEN WITH MEN

2. Equality of family responsibilities

Sovereign equality of all States

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