Act on the Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men, No. 28 of 1991

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

19. The Equal Status Complaints Committee was established by Act No. 28 1991 on the Equal Status of Men and Women.

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

Equal justice and opportunities for women at all levels were essential to ensure gender equality.

Substantive issues Equality of arms in the courts

(g) Gender equality, equity and empowerment of women

Constitutional Framework Women, urban as well as rural, are assured equality under the Constitution of Pakistan.

Women's position and gender equality

Equality before the Law

States Parties shall accord to women, in civil matters, a legal capacity identical to that of men and the same opportunities to exercise that capacity.

1. States Parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.

quot 1. States Parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.

IV. Equal status and human rights of women

As far as the provisions of the Family law regulating parental right are concerned, they place both parents into equal position.

Women have the same legal status as men in civil relations

Was there a plan to bring them within the scope of the Equal Status Act?

The law protected women against discrimination and established a policy of equal opportunity for men and women it had led to the appointment of the country's first Gender Equality Ombudsperson, the creation of a national Office for Gender Equality and the establishment of gender equality commissions at the local level.

Others had opposed the introduction of references to the inequality of belligerent parties in the draft articles.

(b) The Equal Status and Human Rights of Women A Compilation of Country Reports from the Advanced International Programme in Lund The Equal Status and Human Rights of Women A Compilation of Country Reports from the Advanced International Programme in Lund (Lund, Sweden, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, 1994).

The draft amendments to the Civil Code have revised all these provisions, and the woman is now on an equal footing with the man when it comes to the nationality of their children.

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

VI. Equal status and human rights of women

Equality is a cruel illusion people are happiest if rightly placed in a hierarchy legitimized by Catholic teachings.

The Committee acknowledges with appreciation the efforts made by the State party to strengthen the promotion of gender equality in Denmark through its laws, policies and programmes, including the appointment in July 1999 of a Minister for Gender Equality and the enactment in May 2000 of Act No. 388 on Gender Equality.

This requires that rights and laws be interpreted and policies and programmes be designed in ways that take the socially constructed disadvantage of indigenous men and women into account and that secure equality of access and outcome for indigenous women and men.

Women are accorded equal status and rights as men.

Second, the forthcoming general comment must reflect a substantive equality approach, which recognizes women's equality in both de jure and de facto senses.

9 of the respondents considered the positions to be equal.

In November 2003, the Hungarian Parliament adopted the Bill on Equal Treatment and the Promotion of Equal Opportunities.

She maintains that she was prevented from producing a decisive piece of evidence, in breach of the principle of equality between the parties in court proceedings.

(b) Equality before the law includes laws, programmes or activities that have as their object the amelioration of the conditions of the disadvantaged, including those disadvantaged on the grounds of gender (Constitutional Principle V).

As there is no law stipulating that men should be the head of the household, both men and women have equal rights for the status.

Local government reform programmes must not await final status negotiations.

Obstacles to the advancement and full equality of women

It stands with the American constitution.

The ban on discrimination in the Dutch Constitution is implemented in six specific Acts of Parliament the Equal treatment Act, the Equal treatment (Men and Women) Act, the Equal treatment (Working Hours) Act, the Equal treatment (Temporary and Permanent Contracts) Act, the Equal treatment in Employment (Age Discrimination) Act, and the Act on Equal treatment of Disabled and Chronically Ill People.

Noting that the unequal legal and social status of women heightens their vulnerability to HIV,

In the articles relating to marriage, repudiation, alimony and divorce, the Personal Status Act gives men and women equal rights.

The fact that the law is not applicable in Vojvodina would appear to place owners of property outside that province in an unequal position before the law.

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 .

According to the Law on Gender Equality in B H, the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees is responsible for the Gender Equality Agency, formed as independent unit.

It was important that the measures should in no way be construed as prejudicing the fundamental principle of gender equality before the law, equal protection under the law and fair access to justice or as counteracting efforts to advance the legal status and standing of women.

Despite the support of top political leaders, there is a pervasive negative attitude to gender equality and a marginalisation of gender equality issues from mainstream programmes.

It also notes with satisfaction the establishment of a national authority on the advancement of women with a wide range of responsibilities, the amendment of the Equal Employment Opportunities Law placing the burden of proof on the employer in civil sexual harassment suits, and the enactment of the Equal Pay (Male and Female Employees) Law.