Belarusian Helsinki Committee: List of issues on the implementation of CEDAW
SUBMISSION PREPARED BY THE BELARUSIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE FOR the 83rd Pre-Sessional Working Group of the CEDAW
This submission was prepared by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) and other NGOs[1] for the 83rd Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and contains information on a wide range of issues related to the realisation of women’s rights in Belarus as well as a list of questions that would be useful to ask the Belarusian authorities. This includes equality and non-discrimination, access to justice, national human rights institution, civil society, including women human rights defenders, stereotypes, gender-based violence against women, participation in political and public life, education, employment, sexual harassment in the workplace, health, economic and social benefits, rural women, disadvantaged groups of women.
[1] Other NGOs, for security reasons, asked not to publish information about them. BHC highlights that during 2021 Belarusian civil society organizations and initiatives, including those who were engaged in the protection and promotion of women’s rights, were subjected to various forms of repression.
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