Integration and implementation of CEDAW in Mongolia

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Integration and implementation of CEDAW in
Mongolia

• Presenter Ms.Binderya-Senior Officer, Ministry
  of Social Welfare and Labor, Mongolia

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CEDAW in Mongolia

• Mongolia has been joined 20 conventions related
  to ensuring human rights and freedom
• Ratification of CEDAW in 1981
• Ratification of Optional Protocol of CEDAW on
  2001
• Submission of last periodic report of the CEDAW
  implementation in 2006

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Content

• Legal reforms
• National Programs and Policies
• Lessons learned, achievements and obstacles
• National mechanisms
• Further actions to be taken

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Legal Reforms

• Constitutional(1992) prohibition of
  discrimination
• Legal reforms, i.e. revision of legislation to
  conform with the Constitutional spirit.
• Existed 380 laws including
• Law on the National Commission on Human Rights
  (2003)
• Law Against Domestic Violence (2004)
• Labor Code (1999) and etc

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Revision of Legislation

• Criminal Code (2002) provision to punish by a
  criminal liability of Sale and purchase of
  humans
• Civil Procedure Law (2001) provision of monetary
  compensation for psychological damage of victims
  of VAW
• Labor Code (2003) amendment on paternal leave in
  addition to maternal leave
• to be cont-d

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Revision of Legislation

• Law on Advertisement (2002) prohibits
  discriminative advertisement
• Law on Political Parties (2005) provides
• equal opportunity to represent at the parties
  decision-making level without sex-discrimination
  and
• nomination to participate in the elections, and
  choosing its cadres based on gender equality
• Law on Parliamentary Elections (2006) states that
  no less than 30 of candidates nominated party to
  elections will be women.

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National Programs and Policies

• National Program on Gender Equality (NPGE-2002)
• National Program to protect people from sale,
  especially from use of children and women for
  sexual exploitation (2005)
• State Policy on Family Development (2003)
• National Program for Human Rights (2003)
• State Policy on Population Development (2004)
• Mongolias MDGs (2005) and etc

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Laws and programs to be revised and newly
developed

• Laws and program to be revised
• Law on Social Welfare for Elderly Social
  Insurance Law, Social Security Law and etc
• Law on Civil Servants
• Labor Code and etc
• Laws and programs to be developed and approved
• Draft on Gender Equality Law
• Draft on National Program against Domestic
  Violence and etc

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Achievements

• Trends to mainstream gender issues into national
  policy and program
• Improved cooperation between the state, civil
  society and international organizations
• Active participation of women NGOs in the
  protection of womens human rights

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Lessons learned

• Needs of women especially mothers and girls must
  be priority in any developmental activity
• A change should take into account womens and
  mens specific needs
• Specific training for policy-makers has been
  played great role to supervise, assess, report on
  the implementation of CEDAW and integrate it into
  sectoral policies.

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Obstacles

• No practice to refer CEDAW in-lower level courts
• Inadequate resource for regular campaigns on
  CEDAW among the public
• Insufficient participation of private sector in
  the implementation of policies to ensure human
  rights
• Lack of studies and gender analysis on
  discrimination of women in the job place

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National machineries
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Legislative and Executive bodies

• Parliament
• Standing Committees
• Women Parliamentarians Caucus
• Government
• Cabinet
• Ministries
• Local governments
• Other state organizations

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Consultative bodies

• National Committee on Gender Equality (NCGE) and
  its Secretary Office
• Subcommittees on
• Gender Policy Coordination
• Gender Programs and Projects and
• Gender IEC
• Provincial committees
• UN Gender Thematic Group
• Working groups and Task forces on specific issues

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Participating organizations and Citizens

• Organizations
• International organizations and Donors
• Mass media
• Academic
• NGOs
• Private
• Political parties
• Religious and
• Others
• Citizens
• Families and
• Individuals

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Further actions to be taken

• Pay special attention to the social support to
  womens development, particularly to vulnerable
  women
• Support research and gender studies (i.e. study
  gender related and sexual harassment at job
  place) and analyze legislations impact on women
• Establish a legislative basis that will ensure
  women equal access to the labor market and equal
  opportunities to work and prevent direct and
  indirect discrimination in employment.
• To be cont-d

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Further actions to be taken

• Support appropriate effective and results-based
  mechanism for coordination and management to
  promote womens human rights (i.e. consultative
  bodies)
• Increase number of projects on advocating
  integration of CEDAW into legislation
• Develop legal literacy programs for the community
  and gender-sensitization programs for judges and
  law enforcement officials

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Thank you