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Any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil ...
Switzerland was one of the last European countries to establish gender equality in marriage: married women's rights were severely restricted until 1988, when legal reforms providing gender equality in marriage, abolishing the legal authority of the husband, came into force (these reforms had been approved in 1985 by voters in a referendum, who ...
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
"There wasn't momentum for it until the modern women's rights movement, when both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of a slightly reworded Equal Rights Amendment in 1971 and 1972 ...
"The restrictions are just so extreme that it does not even make sense to anybody," says Malala. ... know that to take away women's rights you have to start with the foundation, and that is ...
"The Taliban have created the world's most serious women's rights crisis since taking power," said the New York-based group Human Rights Watch. "Under the Taliban's abusive rule, Afghan women and ...
The Charter aims to "affirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women." At the time of the UN's founding, more than half of the 51 signatory nations either restricted women's voting rights or did not permit women to vote. [5
A bortion restrictions affect women’s health in more ways than one. According to a new study published in JAMA, ... felt that this was a misogynistic attack on their rights,”she says. The ...