Words & deeds
This fifth edition of the Words & Deeds report highlights sex discriminatory laws affecting women and girls and and their families over the course of their lives, focusing on discriminatory family law. The report's aim is on getting governments to cancel laws that explicitly discriminate on the basis of sex. . .The laws highlighted include: marital status (child and forced marriage, divorce, polygamy and wife obedience): personal status (citizenship, evidence, travel and sexual exploitation): economic status (inheritance, property and employment) and violence against women and girls (rape, domestic violence and “honor” killings).
- Creator
- Oravec, Alyssa
- Lagat, Caroline
- Wilkinson, Florence
- [et al.]