26 April 2024
On April 22–26, 2024, specialists from the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus and the experts visited Bishkek in order to get acquainted with the experience of Kyrgyzstan in conducting gender expertise of normative legal acts and the mechanisms for its integration into the legislative process.
Gender expertise of regulatory legal acts is one of the tools that governments use to ensure equal rights and opportunities for men and women in all spheres of life. It helps ensure that legislation, government programs and budgets take into account the needs of men and women, do not contain elements of discrimination, do not lead to greater inequality, and will promote equal opportunities, rights, duties and responsibilities for women and men.
Kyrgyzstan is one of the first countries in the post-Soviet space where gender expertise is a mandatory element of legislative activity. In development of the gender equality policy, already in 2007, the country approved the Regulations on the procedure for conducting gender expertise of draft normative legal acts and preparing relevant conclusions.
The visit to Bishkek was organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Belarus within the framework of the Joint Project “Support to the Efforts of the Republic of Belarus in Nationalization and Localization of SDGs”, funded by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Compliance of regulatory legal acts with the principles of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men promotes sustainable development and contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 5, 10 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.
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