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Back to: Proposed Modifications by Governments
Canada
(1) "States Parties recognize that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination and to this end shall take focussed measures that promote their empowerment and ensure gender equality, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls with disabilities and ensure the full and equal enjoyment by women and girls with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms."
Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Delete paragraphs (1) and (2), and replace with Article 3 from CEDAW, that reads as follows:
“States Parties shall take in all fields, in particular in the political, social, economic and cultural fields, all appropriate measures to ensure the full development and advancement of women with disabilities, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms on a basis of equality with others.”
European Union
The EU has proposed to replace the current 2 paragraphs with one paragraph:
“States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by women with disabilities on an equal basis with others, bearing in mind the general obligation to ensure equality between women and men and recognising that women and girls are often subject to multiple discrimination”.
El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica
2. “Status Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the full development and advancement of women, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the exercise the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.”