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Evaluation of difficulties experienced by reporting entities with impact indicators based on e-SMART criteria ..................................................................................................................... 33 II. Evaluation of difficulties experienced by reporting entities with performance indicators based on e-SMART criteria ........................................................................................................... 37 ICCD/CRIC(11)/15 GE.13-60115 3 I.

Women represent 79 per cent of intimate partner homicides; one in three women has experienced physical violence since the age of 15; and almost one in five women has experienced sexual violence since the age of 15. 10. Since the age of 15, one in four women (23 per cent) has experienced violence by an intimate partner, one in four women (23 per cent) has experienced emotional abuse by an intimate partner and one in six women (16 per cent) has experienced physical or sexual 1 The Rapporteur notes the use of the term “domestic violence” and “family violence”, with the former being used under state and territory domestic violence laws and the latter the terminology used under the Family Law Act. (...) The most recent personal safety survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates that approximately one in four women have experienced violence by an intimate partner, since the age of 15.11 The survey further showed that 17 per cent of females from the age of 15 years onwards (1.6 million) were almost three times more likely to experience violence by a current and/or previous partner they lived with than males (6.1 per cent and 547,600).

Crime surveys for England and Wales reveal that 30 per cent of women reported having experienced some domestic abuse since the age of 16, and 7 per cent reported A/HRC/29/27/Add.2 GE. 15-07879 4/22 having experienced some type of domestic abuse in the course of the last year.1 In 2012–2013, 77 women were killed by their partners or ex-partners.2 10. (...) A/HRC/29/27/Add.2 GE. 15-07879 6/22 problem of sexual violence experienced by women and girls aged between 11 and 25. (...) Interviewees stated that women who have experienced rape and sexual violence experience fear and distress about being guarded by male staff, including having male staff enter rooms without notice, and the disregard for privacy, with women often being seen naked or when using the toilet. 36.

Also requests the secretariat to select a group of experienced review experts from among the lead reviewers of the greenhouse gas inventories, which, every five years, should explore additional standardized checks and consider whether the checks implemented remain useful over time, for consideration at the following meeting of lead reviewers; 5. (...) Desk review will be conducted only by experienced experts. The GHG inventory of each aAnnex I Party shall be subjected to an in-country review by an ERT at least once every [4] years. (...) Desk reviews will be conducted only by experienced experts.] [The GHG inventory of each Annex I Party will be subject to an in-country review [at least] once every [four] [five] [eight] years.]

Distr. GENERAL CAT/C/ITA/Q/4/Rev.1/Add.1 21 de marzo de 2007 ESPAÑOL Original: INGLÉS COMITÉ CONTRA LA TORTURA 38º período de sesiones 30 de abril a 18 de mayo de 2007

According to Statistics Canada research, the proportion of visible minorities who felt they had experienced discrimination was twice that of non-visible minorities. Overall, 81 per cent of visible minorities who felt that they had experienced discrimination believed that it was because of their race or ethnic origin. (...) Central and South American students experienced dropout rates of 37 per cent and the rate for students of East-African descent was 32 per cent.

Many of them also suffered displacement, loss of property and of access to such services as education and health. Women experienced the loss of loved ones and saw their capacity to fulfil their traditional roles limited by the fear and trauma they had experienced during the conflict.9 13. (...) Approximately 64 per cent of women aged between 15 and 49 years and who had been in a relationship reported having experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner.15 It also found a significant overlap of emotional, physical and sexual violence against women perpetrated by intimate partners, with 58 per cent of respondents having experienced both physical and sexual violence, 14 per cent physical violence only, and 28 per cent sexual violence only.16 Another important finding was that 90 per cent of women who reported having experienced violence had experienced it at the hands of an intimate partner, 30 per cent of both intimate and non-partners, and only 10 per cent of women aged between 15 and 49 years exclusively at the hands of a non-partner. (...) For example, 19 per cent of women who had experienced intimate partner violence had had their earnings or savings taken from them by their partners, against only 5 per cent of women who had not experienced physical or sexual violence by their partners.21 21.

Regarding physical violence by an intimate partner, 29.7 per cent of ever-partnered women have experienced such violence in their lifetime, and 11.9 per cent during the previous 12 months. (...) Fourteen per cent of women have experienced sexual violence from non-partners in their lifetime, most often by family members. 51. (...) About one quarter of victims (26.5 per cent) reported not ever disclosing the violence they had experienced to another person until the survey. This is connected to patriarchal attitudes and beliefs shared by men and women.

As national human rights institutions (NHRIs), we experience first hand the difficulty of working with little to no data on how and to what extent older persons enjoy and exercise their human rights. (...) After the webinar organized by the GANHRI on June 22, 2020, entitled “Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Older Persons in COVID-19 Responses and Recovery: The Role and Experiences of National Human Rights Institutions,” the Working Group has adopted ten practical recommendations for NHRIs around the world to enhance their mandates and more visibly and proactively advocate for human rights-based approaches and solutions in response to the risks, actual threats, and violations experienced by older persons amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (...) An intersectional approach acknowledges the complexity of discrimination older persons experience and takes into account the multiple and compounded disadvantages and inequalities they have experienced over their life course.

Ageing is nonetheless of particular concern in the region and in Namibia, as the projected growth rate of the older population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to be faster than that experienced by any other region since 1950.3 In 2015, there were 46 million people aged 60 years or over in sub-Saharan Africa, as compared with 23 million in 1990. (...) In its 2006 report on the status and living conditions of older people in Namibia, the Ministry of Health and Social Services reported that an alarming 21 per cent of older persons had experienced physical abuse, 7 per cent had experienced sexual abuse and 18 per cent had been emotionally abused. 34. Another concern is financial abuse experienced by older persons, particularly in the form of the misuse of their old-age grants to meet young people’s or caregiver’s needs, 18 “Republic of Namibia’s 6th periodic report”, p. 24. 19 Ibid., p. 22. 20 See www.lac.org.na/projects/grap/Pdf/elders.pdf.