Position, Inclusion and Rights of women belonging to minority and marginalized groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Position, Inclusion and Rights of women belonging to minority and marginalized groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Keywords: Rights of women; Minority and marginalized groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Legal Regulation; State-Entity and Cantonal level; Law on Prohibition of Discrimination and the Gender Equality Law;
Although the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination and the Gender Equality Law regulate and offer legal protection from discrimination on grounds that would affect women and girls from minority and marginalized groups (intersection of sex/gender with age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc.), as well as affirmative measures that would lead to their full inclusion in the all spheres of public life, the women and girls belonging to minority and marginalized groups are rarely, almost never, included in the decision - making processes, public policies, plans, measures and activities particularly in the areas of education, health and labor market, reforms of labor, social and pension system (women with disabilities, women with children with disabilities, returnees and internally displaced women, long-term unemployed women, survivors of gender-based or war time violence, single mothers, women in rural areas, Roma women, LBT women and elderly women). They are even more exposed to rights violations and less aware of the mechanisms to claim them.
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