STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY BY REDUCING THREATS TO WOMEN IN POLITICS

The findings will inform the development of practitioner and academic work of HateAid and the Technical University Munich, in partnership with the Alfred Landecker Foundation, and further research by the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. [...] They also establish different implementation mechanisms, such as obligations to develop annual reports on the implementation of the law (Panama and Peru), the establishment of a National Observatory of Political Harassment against Women (Peru), or mechanisms to monitor the compliance of political parties to prevent and sanction violence against women in politics (Panama and Costa Rica). [...] These resolutions recommended the Parliamentary Assembly to modify the code of conduct to explicitly prohibit sexism, sexual harassment and sexual violence, provide additional training on sexual and violence against women, and include violence against women in the Guidelines for the observation of election by the Parliamentary Assembly. [...] The CEDAW obliges state parties to “take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the political and public life of the country and, in particular, shall ensure to women, on equal terms with men, the right: 21 (a) To vote in all elections and public referenda and to be eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies; (b) To participate in the formulation of governm. [...] The law urges the need to conduct further research on the area of 22 violence against women in politics in order to determine its frequency, motives, its impact on the capacity to influence, including in the loss of opportunities, or leaving political life, as well as the responses for political institutions and the causes for the low levels of reporting.