UN experts find level of discrimination against women in US “shocking” [View all]

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http://www.euronews.com/2015/12/14/un-experts-find-level-of-discrimination-against-women-in-us-shocking

The discrimination against women in the United States is worse than in most developed countries, according to findings of a United Nations expert group.

“The US, which is a leading state in formulating international human rights standards, is allowing women to lag behind,” said the human rights monitors, composing the UN expert group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, at the end of an official visit to the country....

The mission examined the conditions for women in areas like economic and social life, access to health care, reproductive health and rights, as well as women’s safety.

“While all women are the victims of these missing rights, women who are poor, belong to Native American, Afro-American and Hispanic ethnic minorities, migrant women, LBTQ women, women with disabilities and older women are disparately vulnerable,” the experts stressed.