Legislation prohibiting discrimination and sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination based on sex.

Important initiatives have been undertaken to confront discrimination based on sexual orientation.

He asked whether legislation was in place to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

One of the CNCD' lines of action is to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation.

He wondered whether the Sex Discrimination Act 2002 extended to discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

The Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men regulates the issue of harassment and sexual harassment as a form of discrimination.

(a) The present anti discrimination legislation does not cover discrimination on the basis of race, sexual orientation and age

The objective of the Program is to prevent and eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation, guaranteeing GLTTBs the full exercise of their fundamental human rights.

It seems that we still take sexual and religious discrimination less seriously than we take racial and ethnic discrimination.

And views on sexual, gender, and racial discrimination, which change with time, are reflected in the laws as well.

She wondered whether Paraguay had developed legal categories of the basis for discrimination, such as ethnicity, marital status or sexual orientation.

The new law on equality of treatment in employment was comprehensive in its goal to eliminate discrimination, prohibiting discrimination based on religion, belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.

The competent authorities, educational institutions, and other legal agents will ensure effective mechanisms in protection against discrimination and sexual harassment and will not take any disciplinary or other punitive measures against that person because of the fact that he or she complained about discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment, or testified about discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment.

All Governments are urged to develop, review and modify discriminatory legal mechanisms in order to protect girls and young women against sexual, physical and psychological violence.

Sexual exploitation and abuse

The Government had set up a special office to address discrimination, including on grounds of sexual orientation or ethnic origin, and had also established a toll free hotline for foreigners who felt that they were being discriminated against.

Gender based discrimination, female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage, pre birth gender selection and female infanticide, sexual abuse and exploitation, honour crimes and other harmful practices against women remain key concerns for young people.

Sexual exploitation and abuse

In all of its forms, gender discrimination makes women vulnerable to sexual slavery, trafficking, and forced marriage, deprives women of their inalienable rights, and diminishes their quality of life.

A positive action for both would be for both sectors to support a comprehensive piece of legislation such as a Sex Discrimination Act or a Sexual Harassment Bill making illegal both direct and indirect discrimination.

I refer to the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse.

Nevertheless, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, and the fact that racists and sexists must pay this tribute is an indication of some moral progress.

During this meeting, the foreign minister said there would be no changes in Cuba's policy to oppose any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender.

Direct discrimination based on sex also means less favourable treatment of a person in connection with pregnancy and child birth, parenting, performance of family obligations or other circumstances related to gender, and sexual harassment.

Concerned that the girl child has furthermore become a victim of sexually transmitted diseases and the human immunodeficiency virus, which affects the quality of her life and leaves her open to further discrimination,

Concerned that the girl child has furthermore become a victim of sexually transmitted diseases and the human immunodeficiency virus, which affect the quality of her life and leave her open to further discrimination,

The definitions of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse are set out in the Secretary General's bulletin entitled Special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (ST SGB 2003 13).

All signatories to our new Declaration agreed that incitement to violence that is motivated by race or gender or sexual orientation constitutes a serious violation of the right to equality.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, which is investigating the crimes in eastern Congo, has only this week indicted the first Congolese militia commander for gender based crimes.

Sexual exploitation and sexual abuse constitute serious misconduct.

Sexual abuse.

Sexual abuse

Adolescent reproductive health problems have also attracted attention.

Commenting on action on the special needs of women in the criminal justice system, another speaker provided information on legislative developments in his country in the areas of prevention of prostitution, prevention of gender discrimination and prevention of sexual harassment.

In 2003, the situation as regards women's rights, despite some legislative advances, continued to be marked by discrimination, inequality, exclusion, family and sexual violence, and the trafficking of persons .

Response to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by field personnel

A poster campaign on the prohibition of sexual exploitation and abuse was launched in all of the Mission's offices.

In the last 50 60 years we have seen fascism, anti Semitism, racism, apartheid, discrimination on the basis of sex and gender and sexuality all these have come under pressure because of the campaigns that have been run by people to change the world.

SEXUAL OBSESSION SCENARIO

(c) Sexual violence

Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Sexual exploitation trafficking

Amendment establishing sexual exploitation and sexual abuse as serious misconduct

(d) To address the long term consequences faced by victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence, including legal discrimination and social stigmatization, as well as the effects on children born as a result of rape