A reminder that there will be a briefing today at 14:00 hrs in Press Room 1 by the author of an OHCHR-commissioned study on Laws that Discriminate Against Women. Dr Fareda Banda of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London found that such laws still exist in virtually every country on the planet, despite repeated commitments by governments to revoke or amend them. To give just one example, at least 53 states have still not made it illegal for a man to rape his wife.
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