Syria
Women's rights checklist
- Constitution refers to gender equality or non-discrimination
- CEDAW ratified without reservations
- Equal rights to pass nationality to child
- Equal rights to pass nationality to spouse
- Domestic violence legislation exists (stand-alone)
- Rape is criminalized (except marital rape)
- Marital rape is criminalized
- Law does not allow mitigating circumstances for femicide
- Law does not include exoneration if offender marries his victim
- Abortion is legal or not criminalized in the case of rape
- Sexual harassment is criminalized
- Adultery is not criminalized
- Sex work is not criminalized
- Minimum age of marriage at 18 (with no exception for marriage below 16)
- No requirement for male marriage guardian for adult women
- Polygamy is prohibited
- Equal rights in marriage and divorce
- Equal rights to guardianship of children
- Equal rights to custody of children
- Equal rights to inheritance
- Women have the right to equal pay for the same work as men
- Women have the right to equal pay for work of equal value
- Unlawful to dismiss worker based on her pregnancy or taking maternity leave
- Maternity leave meets the ILO standard of 14 weeks
- Legal protections for domestic workers
- No gender-specific restrictions on women’s work
LGBTIQ+ rights checklist
- Consensual same-sex sexual conduct is not criminalized:
- Constitutional provisions prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity
- Laws criminalising debauchery/violation family values are not used to repress LGBTIQ+ people
- Legislation does not prohibit expressions of gender identity
- Freedom of expression and association for LGBTIQ+ associations
- Legal gender recognition procedures are available
- Unnecessary medical or surgical treatment on intersex children is prohibited
- Marriage is accessible to all
- Hate-crime/hate speech laws are in place and contain grounds on sexual orientation/gender expression and identity
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