Ensuring women's rights to vote and stand for elections

He lobbied for equal rights, the rights to vote and not to be treated like a second class citizen.

7.1 Equal Rights to Vote, Hold Office and Participate in NGO' and Associations

People who happened to be women didn't have the same rights, couldn't vote.

The women's rights movement succeeded in gaining for many women the right to vote.

Several other laws governing economic, social and cultural rights, employment rights, and the right to vote provided that women enjoyed the same rights as men.

Human rights is too serious a matter to have been left to the blunt expedient of a vote.

No Indian seriously argues that a citizen s democratic rights begin and end with the right to vote.

Therefore, the rights to vote and to stand for elections of the Vietnamese women are in the main ensured.

He urged Member States to vote against the draft resolution on the situation of human rights in Turkmenistan.

Aliens legally employed in the country enjoy the same rights as Croatian citizens, except the right to vote.

Women there have fought for decades to gain their rights to vote, to work, to dress and to be educated as they choose.

They have traditionally fought for the recognition of their rights, and since 1942 they have enjoyed the right to vote.

They vote with these chemical votes, the vote gets counted, and then everybody responds to the vote.

Let's vote. Let's vote.

10. The representative of the Sudan stated that his negative vote on the application of Human Rights Watch should not be interpreted as opposition to human rights in general.

Of course, this vote isn't a vote for a princess, but a vote to restore the Imperial Family.

The ECB operates on the principle of one vote per country the IMF assigns voting rights according to countries capital contributions.

At its 62nd meeting, on 22 April 2005, the Commission on Human Rights decided, without a vote

Vote to do what?

Explanation of vote before the vote

Explanation of vote after the vote

Explanation of vote before the vote

If the Committee proceeds to a vote, each representative shall have one vote.

Several representatives wish to make statements in explanation of vote before the vote.

The Commission of Human Rights decided, without a vote, to defer consideration of the matter to its sixty second session under the same agenda item.

The Commission of Human Rights decided, without a vote, to defer consideration of the matter to its sixty second session under the same agenda item.

I'm old enough to vote.

I'm old enough to vote.

The long walk to vote.

Waiting to vote for freedom

Voters lining up to vote.

You're too young to vote.

11. The representative of Iraq stated that his negative vote on the application of Human Rights Watch should not be interpreted as opposition to organizations active in the field of human rights.

All Caymanians qualified to vote in elections would have the right to vote in a referendum.

But having considered it all, I'm still going to vote the way I'm going to vote.

As the Convention on the Rights of the Child remained the most widely recognized mechanism for protecting children's rights, the European Union would vote against amendments intended to weaken previously agreed references to that Convention.

The lack of IDs also prevent women the access to various of public services, including education, healthcare, the right to vote and other basic social rights.

6. The representative of the Russian Federation requested that a vote be taken on the proposal to grant category II consultative status to Human Rights Watch.

How could anyone vote to strip the rights of the vast variety of people that I knew based on one element of their character?

The United States intends to vote in favour of the draft resolution introduced here on the subject of the human rights situation in Iran.

In 1993, the delegates received the additional right to vote in the House, provided such a vote would not constitute a deciding vote.

The Chairman I now call upon delegations wishing to explain their vote after the vote.

The representative of France has asked to speak in explanation of vote before the vote.

Statements in explanation of vote before the vote