National Assembly Delegation for Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women

Organisation name in original language

Délégation parlementaire aux droits des femmes et à l’égalité des chances entre les hommes et les femmes

Category of human rights structure

Parliamentary structure/mechanism

Country

France

Website URL

Not available

Type(s) of body

Not applicable

Address

126 rue de l’Université, 75355 Paris 07 SP

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Legal source(s)

Human rights capacity support

  • The members of the delegation are supported by French National Assembly administrators, who are recruited through competitive examination. Each member also has a hand-picked team of parliamentary assistants.
  • Administrators and employees alike can find resources through independent institutions defending human rights.

Functions

  • The delegation’s mission is ‘to inform the assembly of the policy pursued by the government with regard to its consequences on women’s rights and equal opportunities for men and women’ and to ‘monitor the application of laws’ in this area.

Specific mandates

Not applicable

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Hearings with ministries and relevant administrations and magistrates.
  • Interviews with civil-society organisations.

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • n/a

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