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awareness of the availability of social services and legal remedies and ensure protection
against victimization.
43.
With regard to Ukraine, the Committee invited the State party to provide
comprehensive information and statistical data in its next periodic report on the situation of
vulnerable groups of women, such as migrant and refugee women, women belonging to
ethnic minorities, in particular Roma women, and on the measures taken to eliminate
discrimination against these women with regard to their access to, inter alia, health,
education, employment and social benefits (CEDAW/C/UKR/CO/7).
Forty-sixth session (12 – 30 July 2010)
44.
In relation to the report submitted by Albania (CEDAW/C/ALB/CO/3), the
Committee recommended that the State party should intensify its efforts to the promote
access of girls and women living in rural or remote areas, including minority girls and
women, to education and their retention at all levels of education. The Committee also
recommended that temporary special measures should be applied in order to ensure the
equality of women and men in their access to property, capital and credits, health-care
services, housing and, more generally, all the components of an adequate standard of living,
particularly with regard to women belonging to disadvantaged groups, including linguistic
and ethnic minorities, as authorized by the comprehensive article 8 of the Law on Gender
Equality in Society of 2008.
45.
In its concluding observations regarding the report of Australia
(CEDAW/C/AUL/CO/7), the Committee reiterated the recommendation from its previous
concluding observations (CEDAW/C/AUL/CO/5, para. 17) that the State party should fully
utilize the Sex Discrimination Act and consider the adoption of temporary special
measures, in accordance with article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Committee’s general
recommendation No. 25, in order to increase further the number of women in political and
public life and to ensure that the representation of women in political and public bodies
reflect the full diversity of the population, including indigenous women and women from
ethnic minorities.
46.
The Committee called on the Russian Federation to pay special attention to the
needs of women and girls belonging to ethnic minorities, and to adopt comprehensive antidiscrimination legislation aimed at protecting ethnic minorities (CEDAW/C/USR/CO/7).
The Committee requested that comprehensive information be included in the next periodic
report of the State party on the impact of measures taken and the results achieved in the
implementation of policies and programmes for these women and girls.
47.
In reviewing the report submitted by Turkey (CEDAW/C/TUR/CO/6), the
Committee called upon the State party to take effective measures to eliminate
discrimination against women of ethnic and minority communities, migrant women,
women asylum-seekers and elderly women, as well as women with disabilities, both in
society at large and within their communities, particularly in the areas of education, health,
employment and political and public life.
Forty-seventh session (4 – 22 October 2010)
48.
The Committee recommended that the Czech Republic should design and take
preventive measures specifically targeted at Roma and migrant women and girls, including
awareness-raising campaigns on trafficking, forced prostitution and forced labour for those
working with Roma communities, and strengthen cooperation with countries of origin and
destination (CEDAW/C/CZE/CO/5).
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