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Socialist International
Women (SIW) deplores the fact that no agreement could be reached
at the 51st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW), in March 2007, to appoint a Special Rapporteur on legislation
discriminating against women.
The necessary review,
monitoring and evaluation of national legislation 'with a view to
... remove discriminatory provisions' concerning the status of women
was demanded by the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
'to ensure equality and non-discrimination under the law and practice'
and 'to revoke any remaining laws that discriminate on the basis
of sex and remove gender bias in the administration of justice'.
SIW recalls that the
UN Secretary General in his 2006 report stressed the 'advisability'
of such an appointment.
Socialist International
Women therefore:
- Calls on its
member organisations to lobby their respective governments to
draft and/or support a resolution to be presented for adoption
at the 53rd session of the CSW in 2009;
- Encourages
its member organisations to cooperate with other women NGOs to
draft such a resolution and consequently present it to their respective
governments;
- Urges those
governments that did not support such a draft resolution in 2007,
to reconsider their position on this essential demand by women
all over the world.
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