Discrimination

CEDAW83: Sharia and customary laws hinder progress in eliminating gender discrimination in The Gambia

“The Constitution provides that the law of The Gambia shall consist of customary law for specific communities, also the Sharia, ...

The delegate of Ukraine, Oksana Zholnovych, emphasised that the recommendations of the Committee are extremely important during the current war ...

The African Group presented a new resolution to the HRC51 to urge States to implement concrete measures to combat racial ...

On behalf of Ma’onah and Geneva International Centre for Justice, Rute Belachew denounced the laws and institutions responsible for perpetuating ...

Children of African descent are exposed to the harsh realities of racism and racial discrimination from an early age. On ...

In a joint oral statement on behalf of EAFORD and GICJ on Monday, the 3rd of October 2022, Emily Bare ...

“Women and girls are subjected to intersecting discrimination”, said Ms. Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and ...

On 11-12 August 2022, GICJ attended the 107th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which ...

On May 25, 2020, a black man by the name of George Floyd was videotaped being wrongfully killed by policemen ...

We welcome this urgent debate but believe that had the DDPA not been undermined and instead been fully implemented by ...