{"id":14884,"date":"2019-05-18T19:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/asylum-migration-and-borders-es\/council-of-europe-adopts-first-ever-international-legal-instrument-to-stop-sexism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-18T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T19:38:23","slug":"council-of-europe-adopts-first-ever-international-legal-instrument-to-stop-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/actualites-fr\/asylum-migration-and-borders\/council-of-europe-adopts-first-ever-international-legal-instrument-to-stop-sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"Council of Europe adopts the first-ever international legal instrument to stop sexism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#x25b6; States should step up their fight against sexism in all walks of life, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/search.coe.int\/cm\/pages\/result_details.aspx?objectid=090000168093b26a\">Recommendation<\/a> just adopted by the Council of Europe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/cm\">Committee of Ministers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#x25b6; In response to the <strong>#MeToo<\/strong> and other recent movements that have heightened awareness of persistent sexism in society, the Council of Europe\u2019s Committee of Ministers adopted a recommendation to stop sexism, which includes the first ever internationally agreed definition of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#x25b6; The Recommendation stresses that sexism is a manifestation of \u201chistorically unequal power relations\u201d between women and men,<\/strong> which leads to discrimination and prevents the full advancement of women in society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because it is <em>\u201cwidespread and prevalent in all sectors and all societies, and (\u2026) sexism and sexist behaviour are rooted in and reinforce gender stereotypes,\u201d<\/em> sexism is defined for the first time ever in a dedicated legal instrument to tackle it, via a comprehensive list of measures and areas where sexism occurs, from advertising and media, to employment, the justice sector, education and sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#x25b6; T<strong>he text in particular aims to shed light on what sexist behaviour is and proposes concrete ways for different actors to identify and address them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Learn more <\/strong><\/span><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/portal\/full-news\/-\/asset_publisher\/Dgh51iCGvfbg\/content\/council-of-europe-adopts-first-ever-international-legal-instrument-to-stop-sexism?\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Council of Europe adopts the first ever international legal instrument to stop sexism.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x25b6; States should step up their fight against sexism in all walks of life, according to a Recommendation just adopted by the Council of Europe\u2019s Committee of Ministers. &#x25b6; In response to the #MeToo and other recent movements that have heightened awareness of persistent sexism in society, the Council of Europe\u2019s Committee of Ministers adopted&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asylum-migration-and-borders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanobsndfr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}