What provisions of human right law guarantee everyone the Human Right to Full and Equal Participation?
Includes excerpts from the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (No. 169). “States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the political and public life of the country and … shall ensure to women, on equal terms with men, the right … to participate in the formulation of government policy and the implementation thereof and to hold public office and perform all public functions at all levels of government…. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure to women on equal terms with men … the opportunity to represent their Governments at the international level and to participate in the work
