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discriminatory acts and practices including in the areas of employment,
education, housing and social services. Legislation should be applicable to both
public and private spheres.
− Establish a statutory body, under anti-discrimination law, charged with
monitoring and enforcing anti-discrimination legislation, and with the authority
to receive complaints and issue legally binding decisions in cases of
discrimination;
− Undertake targeted policy initiatives at the federal and state level to address the
unique circumstances of multidimensional discrimination experienced by
minority women due to their gender and their status as members of
disadvantaged ethnic groups;
− Require the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to undertake a survey in each region
of the traditional customary and religious laws and practices of all ethnic groups
that impact on the constitutional guarantee of equality to women;
− Ensure, in legislation and in practice, that protection of the property rights of
women are equal to those of men, including rights to own and inherit property.
In particular the rights to property of widows, divorced women, and those
affected by conflict should be legally protected;
Political participation
− Ensure the representation of smaller and/or migrant communities from other
states within regional councils, including through constitutional review. At the
federal level, political bodies including the House of Federation should, to the
fullest extent possible, ensure the representation of minority communities;
− Promote measures to ensure the participation of women from minority
communities in federal government bodies, and in all regions, in particular
Somali, Gambella, Benshangul/Gumuz and Afar where representation of women
is extremely low;
Poverty
− Fully implement the recommendations of the independent expert in her annual
report to the Human Rights Council in March 2007 (A/HRC/4/9) in regard to
minorities, poverty and the Millennium Development Goals;
− Institute, in collaboration with the Central Statistical Authority, a programme of
collection of data disaggregated by ethnic group so as to reveal inequalities
across groups and allow for development of appropriate targeted poverty
reduction strategies;