Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 13382 | 27 January 2014

Evaluation of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Palestinian National Council

Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination

Origin - 2014 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 9.4 with the following paragraph:

“acknowledges the efforts made, in particular by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and women’s organisations, to promote the participation of women in political and public life; to fight discrimination based on gender; to ensure effective equality between women and men; and to fight gender-based violence. It expresses concern, however, at the increase of violence against women and calls on the Palestinian authorities to take resolute action against this scourge, in co-operation with civil society and more specifically women’s organisations”.