Parliamentary committee report on violence against women and girls
24 June 2013
In June 2013, the International Development Committee published a report on ‘Violence Against Women and Girls’.
In June 2013, the International Development Committee published a report on ‘Violence Against Women and Girls’.
This report by the World Health Organization, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the South African Medical Research Council was published in June 2013.
The UK CEDAW Shadow Report – ‘Women’s Equality in the UK: A health check’ – was published in May 2013.
Results from the OECD Income Distribution Database published in May 2013 document the impact on OECD countries between 2007 and 2010 of the global economic crisis.
The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report on ‘Human Rights and Democracy’ was published in April 2013.
The Ministry of Justice held a first stakeholder event in March on the mid-term report in the context of the UK’s Universal Periodic Review.
The fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women culminated in the adoption of agreed conclusions for actions to end violence against women and girls.
The heads of international equality and human rights organisations issued a joint statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March 2013.
In February 2013, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published the UK Government’s replies to a list of issues and questions with regard to the UK’s seventh periodic report.
In December 2012, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief published a report focusing on the need to respect and protect freedom of religion or belief of persons belonging to religious minorities.