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May 17, 2014 · Belarus: UN committee hails role of women in political process and protests. GENEVA (3 September 2020) – Reports of violence against women in Belarus, including sexual abuse and rape, received by UN human rights experts, are deeply concerning, the UN women’s rights committee said on Thursday.
UN Women’s country gender equality brief (CGEB) provides a snapshot of the status of gender equality and the empowerment of women in Belarus, particularly against the gender-related indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals.
1 UN Women is currently a non-resident agency in Belarus, with programming and partnerships in country led by the UN Women Regional Ofice for Europe and Central Asia based in Istanbul.
In 2016, Belarus submitted its eighth periodic report on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women8. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women noted the progress the country had achieved in this field.
Oct 26, 2021 · 26 October 2021 Human Rights. While women in Belarus overall are being denied rights and freedoms, female political activists are subjected to enforced disappearances, torture, ill-treatment...
In Belarus, the national statistical body – Belstat – has generated significant amounts of sex-disaggregated data on the overall socio-economic situation in the country. However, for many of CGEB Indicators, Belarus has generated only unprocessed numbers, disaggregated by sex, but not in proportion to the overall population.
