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March 11, 2024, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Is selling sex criminalised? In the new Angolan Penal Code, which came into force in February 2021 there are no offences against selling sex. Is buying sex criminalised? No. Is organising/managing criminalised? In the new Penal Code, which came into force in February 2021 Article 189 contains an offence of pandering/procuring - ‘Whoever, with intent to profit, promotes, encourages or facilitates the exercise of repeated practice of prostitution or sexual acts with another person, taking advantage of economic need or situation of particular vulnerability of the victim or to constrain her to that exercise or practice, using violence, threat or fraud shall be punished with imprisonment of 1 to 6...more
Feb. 2, 2024, 6:33 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Angola who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 38 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Angola, Bahamas, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, North Korea, Peru, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Jan. 21, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Angola was 222 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in Angola is 74.9% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Angola is 64 years for women and 59 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 28, 2023, 2:18 p.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Angola is 60.7 years for men and 65.5 years for women (KMM_CODER COMMENT).
Oct. 12, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1

"Many women, in particular rural women, face barriers to obtaining identity documents, which restricts their access to, inter alia, education, health care, employment opportunities, bank loans and property" (10). "[A]ccess to food subsidies, maternity allowances and credits is conditional on engagement in the formal employment sector [is concerning]" (11)."[W]omen in the informal sector [don't have] access to food subsidies, maternity allowances, credits and loans" (12). "[I]n matters of inheritance, customary law continues to be discriminatory towards women and girls, as it divests them of their land titles" (15).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"The Committee commends the State party on its multisectoral delegation, which was headed by the Secretary of the Family and of the Promotion of Women’s Rights, Ruth M. Mixinge" (1). "[A p]residential Decree No. 222/13 of 24 September 2013 approv[ed] the national policy on gender equality and equity" (2). "The Committee takes note of the creation, in 2017, of the Ministry of Social Action, the Family and the Advancement of Women" (4). "[D]ata, disaggregated by gender, age, rural or urban location, ethnicity, religion, disability, nationality and migration status [is not being collected]" (8).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: GP-DATA-4

The Committee commends the State party on its multisectoral delegation, which was headed by the Secretary of the Family and of the Promotion of Women’s Rights, Ruth M. Mixinge" (1). "The insufficient level of human, technical and financial resources, prevents the newly created Ministry from effectively carrying out its work on the promotion and protection of women’s rights" (5).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: GP-DATA-5

"[W]omen do not often seek the services of the [Ombudsman] Office owing to gaps in its mandate with regard to gender equality" (5). This indicates that the services of the ombudsman is available to women but they do not quite use it (MV-coder comment).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: IAD-PRACTICE-1

"[I]n matters of inheritance, customary law continues to be discriminatory towards women and girls, as it divests them of their land titles" (15).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: IAW-PRACTICE-1

"[T]he adoption, in 2015, of Presidential Decree No. 36/15, approves the legal regime for the recognition of domestic partnerships by mutual consent and the dissolution of recognized domestic partnerships... [The] legislation does not discriminate against women in matters of inheritance... [I]n matters of inheritance, customary law continues to be discriminatory towards women and girls, as it divests them of their land titles" (15).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2

"[A]ll forms of gender-based violence against women and girls in the public and private spheres [are not prohibited]" (7).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: ISTD-PRACTICE-1, IRP-PRACTICE-1

"Rural women and girls and women and girls with disabilities, with albinism, living with HIV/AIDS and in prostitution, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and intersex persons face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, restricting in particular their access to health services, employment, education, housing and justice and their participation in public and political life" (14).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-2

"[M]igrant and asylum-seeking women and girls with irregular migration status, most of whom are from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: [a]re subject to mass expulsion, regardless of whether they are in need of international protection; [c]ontinue to be subject to the excessive use of force and sexual violence perpetrated with impunity by the State party’s security forces; [and a]re subject to sexual exploitation, including being compelled to engage in so-called “transactional sex” in exchange for food and other items necessary for survival, in settlement camps for refugees such as in Lóvua and Kamako" (14).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-4

"[V]ictims of trafficking and women in prostitution in particular [are not provided] with accessible shelters and crisis centres ... [W]omen and girls who wish to leave prostitution [do not have] exit programmes and alternative income-generating opportunities" (9).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: LBHO-DATA-1

"[T]he low representation of women in decision-making positions [is a concern]"… [The] 11.1 per cent representation of women among provincial governors [is a] negative trend in the representation of women in parliament" (9).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: LBHO-LAW-2

"Political Parties Act No. 22/10 of 3 December 2010 provides for a minimum of 30 per cent representation of women on the lists of political parties taking part in general elections" (9).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: LBHO-PRACTICE-3

"Political Parties Act No. 22/10 of 3 December 2010 provides for a minimum of 30 per cent representation of women on the lists of political parties taking part in general elections" (9). This implementation is not being monitored (MV- coder comment).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: UVAW-PRACTICE-1

"[A]ll forms of gender-based violence against women and girls in the public and private spheres [are not prohibited]" (7). "[M]igrant and asylum-seeking women and girls [are not protected] from all forms of violence" (15).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1

"[The state has ratified or acceded the] Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on 19 September 2014 [and the] Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on 19 September 2014" (2). "[There is no] standardized early identification mechanism and referral system for victims of trafficking, in particular women and girls; [There is] insufficient human, technical and financial resources, including shelters and legal, medical and psychological services, allocated for the protection of women and girls who are victims of trafficking; [and there...more
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2

"[G]irls as young as 12 years of age are trafficked from Brazil, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Viet Nam into and/or through the State party for purposes of sexual exploitation and criminal activity" (8-9).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-3

"[M]igrant and asylum-seeking women and girls with irregular migration status, most of whom are from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: [a]re subject to mass expulsion, regardless of whether they are in need of international protection" (14). Prostitution maybe forced through trafficking or inability to get other jobs (MV-coder comment).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: LR-DATA-1

"[There is] disproportionately high levels of illiteracy among women, in particular in rural areas" (10).