Gender equality in legal acts

The legal equality that women enjoy does not necessarily translate into factual equality.

(v) Actively promoting gender equality with the aim of achieving full equality between men and women

1.3 Legal and policy commitments to gender equality are preserved

It also provides full legal guarantees of the right to seek legal redress.

Christodoulou, Athina Maria, Legal Advisor to the General Secretariat for Gender Equality

The National Assembly of Rwanda, for instance, had almost achieved full gender equality.

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

Today, ideas about full employment and equality remain at the heart of social democracy.

A review of the Niger legal corpus shows that it proclaims the principle of equality.

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.

In the 1960s UNRWA schools became the first in the region to achieve full gender equality.

One important strategy for enhancing the enabling environment for gender equality would be to more directly and explicitly link the legal and policy frameworks for promoting gender equality.

In Israel, an Israeli Arab Palestinian minority has full citizenship, even if much remains to be done to afford it full social and economic equality.

At present, two legal aid centres for women are in operation i.e. the Legal Aid Centre for women under the Department of Legal Aid, Ministry of Justice and the Legal Counseling Office on gender equality under the Women's Union.

Women must be given full equality, and Gabon must endeavour to find a way to guarantee it.

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

Some of the research findings have been used for the making of legal documents on women and gender equality.

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.

However, legal and institutional measures have been taken to establish equality between men and women in the labour market.

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.

1.1 Incorporation of the principle of equality between men and women as laid down in legal texts of the Niger

Article 216 of the Civil Code provides that A married woman has full legal capacity.

At these seminars, foreign experts promote the manners and mechanisms of achieving full equality, in all spheres of social life.

Women had acquired full equality with men in marital and family affairs, and could pass their surnames to their children.

Concerning the legal definitions of discrimination and equality, the Women's Bureau had reviewed its 11 years' experience of institution building and had realized that tension persisted between the two perspectives of equality and equity.

The Egyptian Constitution provided for equality for all citizens, freedom of belief, and access to legal proceedings in case of discrimination.

In addition, the Research Centre on Equality Matters offered victims psychological and legal support and employment advice in five major towns.

Moreover, apart from (c), the generalizations involved tend to be pre legal and full of ambiguity.

During that meeting, Prime Minister Koštunica spoke of his full commitment to fulfilling Serbia's legal obligations.

With respect to Free Legal Assistance, the Bill provides for the possibility of full legal assistance, including legal counseling or information on the rights of women as a means of guaranteeing access to justice.

Today, citizens inevitably use their civil, legal, and political rights to demand economic and social equality or at least reduction of inequality.

From a legal standpoint, all the guarantees that prohibit discrimination against women are in place equality is guaranteed by the country's Constitution.

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

Nevertheless ways to incorporate a definition of discrimination and the Convention's provisions on equality into the country's legal framework should be found.

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.

Although most Chinese in Malaysia now feel that they deserve the full rights of citizenship, they have not insisted on absolute equality.

Although various institutions for gender equality had been put in place, the lack of human and financial resources hindered their full operation.

NGOs esteem that the increase of religious extremisms threatens the enjoyment, by women, of the full equality of all their human rights

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.

That situation was not ideal, but decisions of the courts had ensured, in practice, that the legal system upheld the right to equality.

Arwa al Hujaili has become Saudi Arabia's first female legal trainee or three years of apprenticeship ahead before she earns her full legal licensure to become a lawyer.

The formulas used for bringing this adaptation about must focus on increased participation of States in the Organization's decisions and must aim at the full legal equality of all States, an aspiration that has yet to become a reality, but which, nevertheless, remains the mainstay of the United Nations.

Following the enactment of the Equality Act 2004, he had sought legal advice with regard to the reservation on article 11, paragraph 1, which was being maintained because of very limited exclusions in the Employment Equality Act 1998.