from the Daily Beast Feb 16, 2015
"Women’s advocacy group Equality Now calls out 44 governments for their laws against women.
Where
in the world can a man abduct a woman, marry her, and immediately
become impossible to prosecute? That would be Lebanon and Malta. Where
can’t a married woman get divorced without her husband’s permission? Try
Israel. In Russia, women are still forbidden from “hard, dangerous
and/or unhealthy trades.”All these laws are still on the books despite the fact that 20 years ago, at the 1995 World Conference on Women, 189 countries signed on to a plan that would incorporate greater gender equality in their penal codes by revoking any discriminatory laws.
Women’s advocacy group Equality Now has launched a campaign against 44 governments for their discriminatory laws. The report, “Ending Sex Discrimination in the Law,” was released on Friday with the intention of launching a worldwide petition campaign and accompanied by the hashtag #UnSexyLaws.
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