Article 15 Equality before the law and in civil matters

If we add new permanent members, the asymmetry that affects the legal equality of States will only further increase.

The legal capacity of women is also covered in the proposed amendments to the Civil Code dealing with equality.

1.3 Legal and policy commitments to gender equality are preserved

Necessary legal grounds and responsible institutions are provided for in the Gender Equality Act.

The Committee is especially concerned about the State party's narrow focus primarily on de jure equality rather than the realization also of de facto, or substantive, equality of women as required under the Convention.

Ms. Schöpp Schilling welcomed the State party's initiative to review its anti discrimination legislation but cautioned that substantive equality was as important as formal legal equality.

It provides for equality in respect to rights and obligations for citizens in administration, education, legal protection, etc.

The judicial proceedings against him have not been impartial and he has been subjected to discriminatory, humiliating and degrading treatment in detention. His right to equality and non discrimination has also been violated.

The Code had been challenged before the Constitutional Court as being in violation of the rights to equality, due process and judicial guarantees.

Under civil law, the legal capacity of a citizen is manifested in the ability to have civil rights and to bear responsibility (civil legal capacity), which are recognized in equal measure for all citizens.

Whilst legal, religious and custom principles provide the basis for a society that should promote equality, discrimination against women is wide spread.

The United Nations was conceived on a fundamental premise, that of the legal equality of States, which at the time was more of an aspiration than a reality.

Cotton, textiles, sugar, cement, and chemicals play an important role in its economy. Urdu is the national language and is used as a medium of understanding and instruction throughout the country. A number of regional languages are also spoken.

To eliminate this phenomenon, the State has developed and adopted a number of legal and regulatory acts and State programmes and action plans, which has fostered gender equality.

The provisions of the above mentioned legal documents continue to conform to the principle of equality in education while creating mechanisms and necessary conditions for women and girl children to enjoy equality in education and training.

Part two makes a brief presentation of the country's legal situation and shows how Mozambique's Constitution protects and promotes the equality of rights between men and women.

3.1 The author alleges a violation of his right to equal protection of the law without discrimination and of his right to due process of law.

While the laws in Ukraine, including in the country s constitution, establish legal equality between the men and women, closing the gap between the legislation and its implementation is a difficult task.

It is worth mentioning, among others, former President Alberto Lleras Camargo, one of the first and most fierce and efficient defenders of the principle of legal equality between States.

Besides the legal documents mentioned in the above articles, especially in article 4, the State of Vietnam has promulgated other laws and legal documents to ensure employment equality for women.

(c) To establish legal protection of the rights of women on an equal basis with men and to ensure through competent national tribunals and other public institutions the effective protection of women against any act of discrimination

The campaign focuses on inequality faced by girls in developing countries, and promotes projects to improve opportunities for girls in education, medical care, family planning, legal rights, and other areas.

The programme, Legal affairs, is implemented by the Office of Legal Affairs.

In Mubarak s Egypt, citizens legal equality, while stipulated in the constitution, is not respected or observed, especially with regard to the construction and protection of Coptic churches.

Stimulating Equality

Office for Equality

Once you have stayed here, you cannot go back.' He meant back beyond that mountain of trash, back in the legal city, of legal buildings, with legal leases and legal rights.

The legal and illegal supply chains are closely interlinked.

The report was prepared by the Nicaraguan Institute for Women, in its capacity as the national machinery for gender equity and in an effort to fulfil its legal mandate to follow up on public policies for the advancement of women and for ensuring equal rights and opportunities for men and women.

All States were urged to take all necessary measures and to institute legal reforms to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by the girl child of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and to take effective action against violations of those rights and freedoms.

Instead of talking about economic equality, we will now talk about equal sharing of the burden .

Based on the Gender Equality Act the Gender Equality Council will be established.

As far as the concepts of equality and equity were concerned, she informed the Committee that a mass media campaign, entitled Iguales en todos (Equal in Everything), had been launched with a view to promoting a culture of equality.

We did so by launching a Declaration on Principles of Equality a declaration that builds on its historical precursor to establish, for the first time ever, general legal principles that define equality as a basic human right.

We will give priority in our agenda to the promotion of policies with a gender perspective and consolidate legal measures to ensure women's economic, political and social empowerment, for we are convinced that greater equity will contribute to the building of more democratic and fairer societies.

Equality or Estrangement

Happiness Is Equality

Technology and Inequality

Poverty and inequality.

Equality Before the Law

Equality of Access

Gender equality

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

Equality of the sexes