CEDAW Article 5 - Article 5 States Parties shall take all appropriate measures: (a) To modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women; (b) To ensure that family education includes a proper understanding of maternity as a social function and the recognition of the common responsibility of men and women in the upbringing and development of their children, it being understood that the interest of the children is the primordial consideration in all cases.

8 - (a) The use of a discriminatory system to allocate certain types of jobs for a specific gender and the subsequent exclusion of a specific gender from opportunities due to this systemic discrimination shall be construed as discrimination based on gender. (b) Systemic Discrimination in the present Article shall mean systems designed to maintain through laws, policies, culture and practices, unjust beliefs in society on the role of a specific gender, based on social circumstance.

9 - (a) Direct and indirect discrimination of women based on the following circumstances is prohibited. (1) Pregnancy or the possibility of pregnancy. (2) Childbirth or the possibility of childbirth. (3) Breastfeeding or the possibility of breastfeeding. (b) Direct or indirect discrimination based on the following circumstances is prohibited. (1) Sex. (2) Marital status. (3) Family responsibility. (4) Qualities attributed by society to a specific gender or qualities not attributed by society to a specific gender. (5) Roles attributed by society to a specific gender or roles not attributed by society to a specific gender. (6) Established practices promoting inequality towards men and women. (7) Established practices that diminish the dignity of a specific gender. (8) Social and cultural beliefs that a specific gender is superior or that a specific gender is inferior. (c) Discrimination in this Article shall mean the presentation of any of the following circumstances through the action or inaction of an individual, law, regulation, policy or general practice. (1) For a person unjustly blamed, forced to carry a burden or difficulty. (2) Denial of a profit, gain, ease or opportunity for a provision stated in this Article.

21 - 21. (a) Institutions in media services and media personnel shall actively promote the principle of equality between men and women. (b) For the purposes of part (a) of the present Article, it is the responsibility of media personnel to promote the belief in the principle of equality amongst all people, that everyone is entitled to their rights and opportunities without discrimination, and that both men and women are entitled to the same degree of representation without undertaking particular roles in the society, regardless the biological differences between men and women.

22 - As per the stipulations of the present Act, it is the responsibility of all personnel in educational service institutions to undertake the following: (a) To promote the principle of equality between men and women through the educational curriculum and to promote the principle of equality amongst all people and their entitlement to rights and opportunities without discrimination. (b) To represent both men and women equally in the curriculum and while teaching, without assigning particular roles to them, regardless the biological differences between men and women. (c) To provide equal opportunities to both men and women in acquiring education, reaping the benefits of education, training, learning, acquiring skills, acquiring knowledge, reaping the benefits of subjects related to science and technology, and in invention and innovation. (d) To equally provide boys and girls with education related to adolescent health. (e) To establish gender equality within extracurricular activities amongst students; to open up equal opportunities for men and women in such activities; and to encourage reaping the benefits of such opportunities. 16 (f) To provide information and training on the establishment of gender equality, for all teachers and administrative staff of schools, within teacher training programmes and in the professional development of teachers. (g) To promote equality between men and women and to increase the participation of women, in all institutions working on the provision of education and skills training programmes.

CRC OP- 30(a) - CRC-OPSC

133.217 - UPR -3rd cycle

133.90 - UPR -3rd cycle

133.147 - UPR -3rd cycle

2021-16.(b) - CEDAW

2021-22.(a) - CEDAW