Women as Parts of Discriminated Communities

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Gender Law Newsletter FRI 2025#3, 01.09.2025 - Newsletter abonnieren

WORLD: INTERSECTIONAL DISCRIMINATIONS (POLICY PAPER)

July 2025

UN Women, Women belonging to communities discriminated against based on work and descent: Advancing intersectional rights and justice, New York, July 2025.

Discrimination on work and descent is understood as “any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on inherited status such as caste, including present or ancestral occupation, family, community or social origin, name, birth place, place of residence, dialect and accent that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, or any other field of public life» (p. 7). This paper «aims to provide a wider context of the applicable international normative framework, to highlight specific challenges and human rights violations that include patriarchal social norms derived from systemic structures like descent and caste that persist in communities and institutions, as well as good practices, and to offer recommendations” (p. 6).

Direct access to the policy paper (https://www.unwomen.org)