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Women, Human Rights and Decision Making HandoutWomen, Human Rights and Decision Making Handout
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Women, Human Rights and Decision Making

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This article covers the issue of women's empowerment and their full and equal participation in public life, including Governments' obligations to ensure the Human Right to full and equal participation in power and decision-making.

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human rights issues, sexual equality, women's empowerment, women's full and equal participation in public life, women's right to participate on equal terms with men, convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, international covenant on civil and political rights, international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, universal declaration of human rights, equality of all persons

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