The Alberta Joint Working Group on MMIWG (Joint Working Group) was created in 2020 by the Government of Alberta's Minister of Indigenous Relations in response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The Alberta Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Roadmap (Roadmap) is a 2022 guide by and for the Alberta, Canada government for initiatives designed to address the disproportionate violence and economic hardships that members of the Indigenous community experience. The Roadmap is Alberta's response to the Canadian Government’s National Inquiry in Missing and Murdered Women and Girls (aka National Inquiry). The Roadmap has four pathways.
In 2006 and 2009 the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) denied the Ang Ladlad LGBT Party’s request to register as a political party in the Philippines. The petitioner, Ang Ladlad, is an organization of individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. COMELEC denied their request under “moral” reasons, arguing that the organization is contrary to Christian and Muslim beliefs and thereby conflicts with the secularity of public morality.
Article 6 of the Law on Equal Opportunities and Treatment between Women and Men (202/2002) - gender-based discrimination
In the case of Bouton v. France, the applicant, a feminist activist who was a member of Femen, was convicted and given a one-month suspended prison sentence (i.e. with probation) for staging a topless protest in a church in December 2013, exposing her breasts with slogans daubed over them, as part of an international action against the Catholic Church’s position on abortion. She was also ordered to pay the parish representative 2,000 euros (EUR) in respect of non-pecuniary damages and to pay EUR 1,500 towards the other party’s costs.
Decree No 13 of 2006 organizes and regulates the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Rights, Ministère de la Condition Féminine et des Droits de la Femme (MCFDF), by recognizing its role in formulating and implementing government policy for gender equality and the advancement of women. The Ministry is empowered to develop and coordinate policies, conduct research, combat discrimination and violence against women, promote women’s participation in all sectors, and ensure the integration of gender perspectives into national policies.
Under § 369-5, the Hawaii State LGBTQ+ Commission is responsible for serving as a central coordinating and advisory body for issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and additional gender and sexual-minority populations in the state.
This law ratifies the UN treaty on the convention on Political Rights of Women (Convention on the Political Rights of Women open for signature on 31 March 1953) recognizing that everyone has a right to take part in the government of their country and recognizing women’s right to vote and participate in the political process of the country. This law gives the same rights to Indonesian women as is provided under the convention and protects those rights under Indonesian Law.
In 2009, Uruguay passed a law that promotes the participation of women in political elections (Law No. 18476 of April 3, 2009). The law includes an obligation to include people of both sexes in each third of the electoral lists for party conventions, party leadership bodies, parliament and departmental boards (Article 2 of Law No. 18476).
Organic Electoral Law, Code of Democracy (2009)
As an affirmative action measure, Article 165 provides that in the proclamation of elected authorities, when there is a tie for the last seat, and the tie is between candidates of different sexes, the seat shall be awarded to the woman. This law promotes equal representation in nominated and appointed public service positions, management and decision-making bodies, as well as political parties and movements.
