| |
| | EGM/WESR/1997/Report - Promoting women's enjoyment of their economic and social rights Expert Group Meeting |
 | | Attention to the enjoyment by women of their human rights and to violations of such rights, both conceptually, as well as with regard to practical actions, has increased since the convening of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights. |
 | | The Platform for Action noted that many women face additional barriers to the enjoyment of their human rights because of such factors as their race, language, ethnicity, culture, religion, disability or socio-economic class or because they are indigenous people, migrants, including women migrant workers, displaced women or refugees 10/. |
 | | It noted, however, that the explicit and implicit inequalities that affect women's enjoyment of these rights can be exacerbated by policies introduced to ensure that women fully enjoy economic and social rights in those cases where policy makers fail to take account of the reality of the lives of women, as well as men. |
| www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/cn6/1998/hrights/egmwesr1997-rep.htm (13429 words) |
|