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Children are facing increasing threats to their safety and wellbeing, which include mistreatment, gender-based violence, exploitation, social exclusion, and separation from caregivers because of lockdown measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. (...) However, Philippine National Police (PNP) data shows that there was a decrease in reported gender-based abuse and violence during the first months of lockdown. 4. CHR is of the position that these problems should be approached holistically by changing people’s behavior through integrating internet literacy, sex education and streamlining child- and gender sensitivity orientation in the basic education curriculum and other information drive efforts.

Joint Programmes (23) were a rising feature of the collaboration, including on gender-based violence and family violence prevention. (...) The Caribbean School Safety Initiative was an instrument towards building human capital but due to the pandemic education, health, gender equality and inclusion objectives were not met and had been highly compromised. (...) The meeting underscored the highest importance of working towards achieving gender equality and youth and children development while addressing income inequality and low participation of women in the labour force and in politics.

Recommendations called on Australia to establish, or consider establishing, a Federal Children’s Rights Commissioner.27 The Government has committed to investigate 23 UPR Rec 93. 24 For example, Norway and Switzerland. 25 For example, UPR Rec 54 and UPR Rec 55. 26 These reforms will ‘require large employers to report on gender equality outcomes, including the gender composition of their organisations and their boards, pay equity, and on the availability of flexible work arrangements for men and women.’ (...) A positive development in this area since the UPR was the creation of new guidelines that will remove difficulties faced by sex and/or gender diverse people in obtaining passports that reflect their affirmed sex.32 37. (...) See Human Rights Council, Draft Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, UN Doc A/HRC/WG.6/10/L.8 (3 February 2011). 31 UPR Rec 70. 32 Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, ‘Getting a passport made easier for sex and gender diverse people’, (Media Release, 14 September 2011).

It also A/C.3/72/14 17-18695 6/11 needs to ensure that press freedom come with responsibility and accountability at this nascent transition. 5.2 Gender equality Myanmar is working hard to put gender equality and women’s empower ment at the heart of our national development. (...) The division between the two communities is so deeply wedged that there seems to be a race to get an advantage against each other by turning the situation into more than what it should have been. (...) In cooperation with the EU and UN bodies, the Government is providing training and capacity building for police and security forces in the areas of human rights, child protection and gender-based violence. 7.4 Second wave of terrorist attacks and new challenges There were a disturbing increase in violence and unrest in the Rakhine State over recent months as a consequence of provocative attacks by extremist terrorists.

We also support policies that encourage firms of all sizes, in particular women and youth entrepreneurs, women-led firms and SMEs, to take full advantage of global value chains (GVCs), and that encourage greater participation, value addition and upward mobility in GVCs by developing countries, particularly low -income countries (LICs).We welcome the B20’s interest to strengthen digital trade and o ther work and take note of it’s initiative on an Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP). 31. (...) We pledge to enhance policy coherence on sustainable development and reaffirm our commitment to further align our work with the universal implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development, based on the compara tive advantage and the added value of the G20 and in accordance with our national circumstances, while acknowledging that the global follow -up and review of the 2030 Agenda is a UN-led process.

Preventive solidarity aims at overcoming the root causes of poverty, inequality and gender imbalances, implying that States fully respect and comply with their obligations under international law, pledged at the United Nations. 2. (...) States should ensure that there is a balanced gender representation in States’ delegations to diplomatic and international decision-making forums, on all issues and levels, and not just on women’s rights. 3. States should cooperate jointly, to address the intersection of gender based discrimination, poverty, socio-economic marginalization and violence, as well as the links among trafficking in human beings, corruption, terrorism, militarism, trade in small arms, and gender-based violence, and devote sustained and consistent attention to the issue of women and girls in all situations of vulnerability and multiple forms of discrimination who are particularly at risk of gender-based violence. 4.

Law N. 5- XVI did not stipulate procedures for submitting and examining complaints of sex and gender-based discrimination. Notwithstanding, the Working Group was informed of two cases of gender-based discrimination brought to court by civil society organizations. (...) With regard to employment, article 8 of the Labour Code of 2003 prohibits any direct or indirect discrimination against the employee on the basis of, inter alia, gender. Article 10 also stipulates the obligation of employers to ensure equal pay for equal work, and article 128 proscribes, inter alia, gender discrimination in the amount and payment of wages. (...) Executive-level bodies are complemented by Gender Councils, which were established by the Government in 2010.

Given the minimal emphasis on gender at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, the framework for gender reform is based largely on existing policy frameworks which include goals and policies for gender equality. (...) It reaffirms its commitment to promoting gender equality, guaranteeing the lawful rights and interests of women through advancing the equal participation of women in the management of State and social affairs, eliminating gender discrimination in employment and realizing equal pay for equal work. (...) The Group notes that the gender pay gap has been increasing during the past two decades,14 especially in rural areas and the private sector.

During the discussion, questions were raised as to what the core of the mandate of national rapporteurs should be and what the key advantages of being independent were. A variety of models of national rapporteurs and equivalent mechanisms emerged and their possible advantages and disadvantages were discussed. It was proposed that the real functioning of national rapporteurs be looked at and existing advantages built upon, without losing sight of the objectives of having such mechanisms. (...) The participants also considered it important to evaluate the implementation of anti-human trafficking actions from a gender perspective. 28. Access to relevant information was cited as one of the most important enabling factors for monitoring and evaluating anti-trafficking actions and issuing evidence-based reports and recommendations.

It is a mistake to assume that gender analysis/women’s protection will come “instinctively” to soldiers trained in war-fighting. (...) As one speaker put it, political guidance must be deeper than the directive: “Do something, General!” • Gender-sensitive conflict assessments are required to identify threats of sexual violence and inform deployment planning and resourcing. (...) This also requires a gender/age-disaggregated assessment of the root causes of violence against different demographic groups (poverty; dependence; the resurgence of harmful traditional practices; drug/alcohol use, etc)