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Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should adopt the proposed amendments to its nationality and citizenship laws to allow for dual citizenship to reduce the risk for foreign …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure birth registration of children born to refugee and asylum-seeking women.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should review the threshold for proving partner abuse in the context of the requirement for obtaining permanent residence status of three years …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should review immigration laws and policies to ensure that they do not have disproportionate consequences for ethnic minority, refugee and asylum-seeking women …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  In line with its general recommendations No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women and No. 30 …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure, in the case of divorce, that the concept of joint marital property extends to intangible property, including pension and insurance …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should adopt the legal measures necessary to enhance the economic protection guaranteed to all women living in de facto relationships, in the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that gender-based violence against women in the domestic sphere is taken into account in child custody or visitation decisions, especially …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should extend the scope of the white paper on equal terms to all persons, including women, with disabilities.
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should evaluate the issue of investigations and prosecutions of cases involving sexual violence against women with cognitive and psychosocial disabilities.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Awareness-raising and dissemination
  The Committee recommends that the State party consider expanding the Local Election Day project with a view to increasing the number of women from ethnic …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The Committee recommends that the State party address the disproportionate percentage of women receiving the State minimum pension and take remedial measures to even out …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure sufficient numbers of midwives to provide appropriate health-care services to women during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period and to …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesConsultationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should ensure that all Sami women are provided with adequate health care and social services, including by disseminating more information about the …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should provide the Committee with information and data on the health situation of Sami women and on the impact of the measures …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should systematically collect disaggregated data on harmful practices in the State party and report them to the Committee in its next periodic …
• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should strengthen primary and secondary education on gender stereotypes, prejudice, gender identity and gender roles, including on various forms of stereotypes affecting …
• Type of action: ResourcesStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of CultureMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should allocate resources for research into the root causes and possible impact of oversexualized representations of girls and women in the media …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should step up the implementation of the action plan against hate speech, which should provide for a monitoring mechanism to assess the …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should amend section 185 of the Penal Code to add gender to the list of actions that qualify as criminal hateful expressions.

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should reinforce programmes aimed at combating gender segregation in the education sector at all levels, including with respect to non-traditional educational and …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should consider introducing temporary special measures, such as a mandatory statutory quota, to ensure the equal representation of women in high-level academic …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should reduce the dropout rate at the upper secondary level for girls and boys with a migration background or whose parents have …

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should continue to take the necessary measures, including implementing section 34 of the new Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act on equal pay for …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should continue to implement measures to ensure the equal participation of both parents in family life, including good practices such as maternity …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should accelerate the envisaged legislative response to the Supreme Court ruling of 2016 limiting the preferential treatment accorded by the Working Environment …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should consider abolishing the au pair system with a view to preventing the exploitation of women and girls, in particular in the …