Both in law and in practice.
Efforts to narrow the gender divide continue to be stymied by discrimination in law and practice, violence against women and girls, unequal employment opportunities and unequal division of unpaid care and domestic work.
The London-based human rights group Amnesty International said in its 2013 report on Iran that women there "faced discrimination in law and practice in relation to marriage and divorce, inheritance, child custody, nationality and international travel".
Religious minorities are at particular risk, facing "discrimination in law and/or in practice.
Although violence against women and discrimination against women is prevalent in law and in practice/society all around the world, it does not mean that it is inevitable.
And discrimination against women in law and practice continues unabated.
The members of the U.N. Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice spent two weeks in the U.S., and met with stakeholders around the country, including government representatives, lawyers, and advocates in Washington, D.C., Alabama, and Oregon.
This sophomore writing seminar considers questions of ethics and justice in thinking through contemporary issues in law and everyday practice concerning people with disabilities and the disability experience, including discrimination in the workplace, education, and public sphere.
To the contrary, in many ways sex discrimination in Yemen is sanctioned both by law and in practice.
Although ethnic discrimination is proscribed by law, in practice the prohibition is not well enforced.
