In Ireland, U.N. committee calls for another constitutional referendum on care provision

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today published the concluding observations of its eighth periodic review of Ireland. [ . . . ] The committee has called on the government to conduct an “independent evaluation of the referendum” and to “carry out information campaigns on the negative reinforcement by Article 41.2 of gender stereotypes about women’s roles in the home”. It goes on to say that the government should “undertake inclusive public consultations to find alternative wording with a view to holding another constitutional referendum on amending Article 41.2 of the Constitution to remove the stereotypical language on the role of women in the home”.
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