The High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] on Tuesday stated [press release] that no country has achieved full equality between men and women and urged the 47 members of the Human Rights Council to make efforts to achieve such equality. During an opening statement to a panel discussion on gender equality, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein [official profile] blamed such things as under-representation of women in the member states and only having women experts on panel discussions regarding issues with women and children as possible causes of this inequality.

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