Country visits

Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

The Working Group undertakes country visits at the invitation of the Government with the aim of examining the situation of discrimination against women in law and in practice at the national level, identifying good practices in the elimination of such discrimination, and making recommendations to the Government to improve the protection of women's human rights.

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Since 2012, the Working Group has conducted 22 country visits. Find the list of those visits with links to reports, comments and follow up documentation in the table below.

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Year	Country	Report	Comments by the State	End of mission statement	Follow-up
2024	Dominican Republic	report forthcoming		End of mission statement
2023	Mauritania	A/HRC/56/51/ADD.1		End of mission statement
2023	Malta	A/HRC/56/51/ADD.2		End of mission statement
2023	Afghanistan	A/HRC/53/21		End of mission statement
2022	Maldives	A/HRC/53/39/Add.2	A/HRC/53/39/Add.3	End of mission statement
2022	Kyrgyzstan	A/HRC/53/39/Add.1		End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Inputs from CSOs Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2020	Romania	A/HRC/47/38/Add.1		End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Letter from the working group (2023) Response from the State: 1, 2, 3 Inputs from CSOs Submission by ECPI and SECS Submission by ALEG Submission by Coalition on Gender Equality Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2019	Greece	A/HRC/44/51/Add.1		End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Response from the State Inputs from CSOs Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2018	Poland	A/HRC/41/33/Add.2	A/HRC/41/33/Add.4	End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Response from the State Inputs from CSOs Submission by FEDERA Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2018	Honduras	A/HRC/41/33/Add.1	A/HRC/41/33/Add.3 (Spanish only)	End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Response from the State Español \| English Inputs from CSOs Submission by CRD and CDM Submission by Broken Chalk Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2017	Chad* (Annotated Version)	A/HRC/38/46/Add.2		End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Inputs from CSOs Submission by Elizka Relief Foundation Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2017	Samoa	A/HRC/38/46/Add.1		End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Inputs from CSOs Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2016	Kuwait	A/HRC/35/29/Add.2	A/HRC/35/29/Add.3	End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Response from the State [English \| Arabic] Inputs from CSOs Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2016	Hungary	A/HRC/35/29/Add.1	A/HRC/35/29/Add.4	End of mission statement	Call for input English \| Français \| Español Response from the State Inputs from CSOs Submission by Leidy Depaz Caballero
2015	United States	A/HRC/32/44/Add.2		End of mission statement	Letter from the working group (2017) Reply from civil society organizations (2019)
2015	Senegal	A/HRC/32/44/Add.1	A/HRC/32/44/Add.3 (French only)	End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group
2014	Spain	A/HRC/29/40/Add.3		End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group Information submitted by the State
2014	Peru	A/HRC/29/40/Add.2	A/HRC/29/40/Add.5 (Spanish only)	End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group
2014	Chile	A/HRC/29/40/Add.1	A/HRC/29/40/Add.4 (Spanish only)	End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group
2013	China	A/HRC/26/39/Add.2		End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group
2013	Iceland	A/HRC/26/39/Add.1		End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group
2013	Tunisia	A/HRC/23/50/Add.2		End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group
2012	Moldova	A/HRC/23/50/Add.1		End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group
2012	Morocco	A/HRC/20/28/Add.1		End of mission statement	Letter from the Working Group

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