These laws are non discriminatory.

Prohibition of arbitrary and discriminatory laws

Furthermore, these laws contain discriminatory provisions.

The laws relating to these Commissions are also non discriminatory.

Law reform efforts to eliminate discriminatory laws and to revise laws that have a discriminatory impact also contribute to enhancing an enabling environment for gender equality and empowerment of women.

Laws prohibiting discriminatory speech in the press are as old as 1881.

Perhaps transitional laws would be needed during the changeover from the discriminatory system.

All these laws and rules are non discriminatory and impose no restrictions on women.

The laws considered to be discriminatory to women are discussed under Article 15 of the Convention.

She enquired whether the Government of Gabon had such plans and how it would abolish discriminatory laws.

19.1 States should neither adopt nor apply laws that prejudice the restitution process, in particular through arbitrary, discriminatory, or otherwise unjust abandonment laws or statutes of limitations.

Reiterates that States should neither adopt nor apply laws that prejudice the restitution process, in particular through arbitrary, discriminatory, or otherwise unjust abandonment laws or statutes of limitations

If the recently enacted laws are to have the intended effect, Indian society must reject discriminatory mindsets and practices.

Many discriminatory laws had been repealed and new laws that guaranteed equality had been promulgated, but their implementation and impact on the daily lives of women were still limited.

The we change website has been a supporter of a virtual campaign called One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws.

Any unlawful act that is discriminatory is at variance with the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Tajikistan and entails liability.

In August 2003 the Commission also recommended the repeal of the Hudood Laws, which many people consider to be discriminatory towards women.

2.21 One of the targeted actions identified under the Gender Equity Policy in 1997 to ensure gender neutrality was to review discriminatory laws.

The National Commission on the Status of Women has undertaken an exercise to examine laws considered to be discriminatory towards women. It has already suggested amendments to the Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951 to change certain provisions discriminatory towards women.

19.2 States should take immediate steps to repeal unjust or arbitrary laws and laws that otherwise have a discriminatory effect on the enjoyment of the right to housing, land and property restitution, and should ensure remedies for those wrongfully harmed by the prior application of such laws.

Various human rights bodies have paid close attention to the actual or potentially discriminatory effects of States' practices and laws in the struggle against terrorism.

Therefore, it was very important for the Government to take all measures to amend any discriminatory laws and bring them into line with the Convention.

UNIFEM supported the Sierra Leone Law Reform Commission to facilitate a series of national consultations on discriminatory laws and women's rights, leading to a gender equality bill.

This constitutional affirmation of equality is not always reflected in ordinary laws, such as the Civil Code, in which there are discriminatory provisions that have had to be amended.

The dawn of democracy in 1994 gave birth to hopes of an equal society, free from the prejudices of the discriminatory laws that kept South Africans apart for so long.

Discriminatory governmental policies

States should take measures to curb discriminatory laws and practices and take initiatives such as the enactment of non discrimination legislation, including the prohibition of discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation.

The Conference also urged the Government of Myanmar to review its policies towards its Muslim citizens and to repeal the discriminatory laws against them, since they contravene human rights and human dignity.

Appointed by the Right Honourable Prime Minister of the Republic of Zambia to a Committee of Legal Experts to investigate and report on any discriminatory laws against women in Government and State owned enterprises.

Ms. Patten expressed concern at the persistence of discriminatory provisions in national laws and asked whether lack of resources, political will or support were obstacles to the proper functioning of the inter ministerial committee.

A large section of the population, particularly human rights and women's rights activists and organizations, are of the view that the laws, particularly Offences of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance are discriminatory towards women.

Noting that genocide is often facilitated and supported by discriminatory laws and practices or lack of effective enforcement of the principle of equality of persons irrespective of race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin,

The Ministry had also been working with UNDP and UNFPA to undertake an analysis of the laws and submit them to the inter ministerial committee with a view to eliminating any discriminatory provisions against women.

Yet national and international case law recognizes that a non discriminatory measure in theory can be discriminatory in practice.

(b) To eliminate laws, regulations and practices that, in a discriminatory manner, prevent or restrict women's participation in the political process and to implement positive measures that would accelerate the achievement of equality between men and women

To be effective, a focus on microcredit has to be part of a more comprehensive policy framework that addresses women's poverty through, inter alia, property rights, access to natural resources and abolition of discriminatory laws and stereotypes.

1.1 Gender discriminatory provisions are removed

These articles are totally non discriminatory.

3. States Parties shall take all appropriate steps, in accordance with international law, to ensure that laws protecting intellectual property rights do not constitute an unreasonable or discriminatory barrier to access by persons with disabilities to cultural materials.

In the case of unequal rights of ownership or inheritance, for instance, article 16 of the Convention and the Optional Protocol could be used as tools to repeal all the discriminatory laws that still existed in the country.

A special measure could appear discriminatory and still be construed as non discriminatory if one of its purposes was to overcome discrimination.

While noting the State party's efforts to tighten up its laws and strengthen its institutions combating racial discrimination, the Committee notes that racist and xenophobic incidents, in particular against Arabs and Muslims, and discriminatory attitudes towards ethnic minorities are still encountered.

(c) Strengthen the rule of law and the reform of the justice system, including through training of the judiciary and police amend or abolish discriminatory laws, regulations, customs and practices and criminalize violence against women and girls, including domestic violence

In the legal sphere, her Government had worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to identify laws considered to be discriminatory, and an inter ministerial committee chaired by the Minister of Justice had been set up to review them.

2.27 While the legislative review undertaken above by Zinner Toa Wano was specifically to identify legislation to ensure gender neutrality, there are pieces of legislation and customs which contravene the laws of the country and which are in effect discriminatory against women.