WOMEN PROFILE
PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN ARMED
CONFLICTS
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States
and parties should ensure respect for the rules of international humanitarian
law applicable in armed conflict situation which affects the population particular women
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State
and parties shall in accordance with the obligation incumbent upon them under international humanitarian law , protect civilians
including women , irrespective of the population to which they belong in the events of armed conflict
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State
and parties undertake to protect asylum seeking women refugees, returnees and
internally displaced persons
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State
, parties should take all necessary measures to ensure that no child , especially girls under 18 years of
age take a direct part in hostilities and that no child is recruited as a
soldiers
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State
parties shall assure that women should free from exploitation, sexual harassments,
crime and to combat
RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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State
parties should eliminate all form of discrimination against women and to
supervise equal opportunity in education and training
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Eliminate
all stereotypes in textbooks, syllabus and the media that perpetuate such
discrimination
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To
protect women from sexual harassment
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Provide
accesses to counseling and rehabilitation services to women who suffer abuses
and sexual harassment
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Promote
literacy among the women
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To
promote educational training in all level from lower to university
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To
promote enrollment and retention of girls in schools and other training
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Economic
and social welfare rights
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Promote
equality of access employments
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To
promote equal remuneration for job of equal value for women and men
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Generate
women freedom of choice occupation
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To
ensure transparency in recurrent and promotion and to combat and punish sexual harassments
in the work place
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Create
conducive environments for protection and social insurance for women working in
both government and private sectors
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Introduce
the minimum age for work and to prohibit the employment for child below the 18
age and to punish all form of
exploitation of children especially the child-girl
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To
take necessary measure for economic of women who work at home
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To
guarantees adequate and paid pre- and post natal maternity leave in both
private and public sectors
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Ensure
equally application of taxation law to women and men
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Promote
women salary, promotion, allowance for
both private and government sector
Health and reproductive right
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State
and parties should ensure right of reproductive health for women as
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The
right to control their fertility
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The
right to decided how many child she wants
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The
right to choose any mother of contraception
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Self
right to protection against epidemic diseases like HIV
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Right
to have a family planning education
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State
parties should give equal and appropriate of health services for women
Food and security
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State
parties should ensure access to clean drinking water and nutritional foods for women
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Establish
adequate system of supply and storage as to ensure food supply for women
Right
to positive culture context
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Women
shall have a rights to live in positively cultural context and to appropriate
at all level in the determination of cultural policies
Right of healthily and
sustainable environment
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State
and parties shall ensure great participation of women in the planning
management and preservation of the environmental
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To
promote research and investment in promoting women and our environmental as
whole
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Protect
and enable the development of women s indigenous knowledge system
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To
regulate the management, processing storage and disposal of domestic waste
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Ensure
that proper standards are followed for the storage, transportation and disposal
of toxic waste
WIDOW’S RIGHTS
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The
state parties shall ensure that widows are not subjected to inhuman,
humiliating and degrading treatments
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Widows
shall automatically become a guardian and custodian of her children
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Rights
to inheritance
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Widows
shall have the right to an equitable share in the inheritance of the property
of her husband
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Women
and men shall have the right to inherits in equitable shares their parents
properties
SPECIAL PROTECTION ELDERLY WOMEN
The state
parties should undertake
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Provide
protection to elderly women and take specific measures commensurate with their physical,
economics and social needs as well as their access to employment and
professional training
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to
ensure freedom from violence including sexual abuse , discrimination based on age and the right to
the treatment with dignity
SPECIAL PROTECTION
OF WOMEN WITH DIS- ABILITY
State
and parties should undertake to
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Ensure
the protection of women with disabilities and take specific measure
commensurate with their physical economic and social needs to facilitate their access
to employment, professional, vocation training, participation and decision
making
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Freedom
from violence from sexual harassments, abuse, discrimination
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