Examples of using Patten asked in English and their translations into Russian
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Colloquial
Ms. Patten asked to what extent rural women's access to social security had improved.
Ms. Patten asked whether a time frame for the legislative reform process had been established.
Ms. Patten asked for the precise number of men and women serving on the National Human Rights Council.
Ms. Patten asked whether women working in the informal sector were taken into consideration by policymakers.
Ms. Patten asked whether the Government had any plans to establish a legal aid system for the benefit of disadvantaged women.
Ms. Patten asked the delegation to provide information indicating the occupational categories in which women were employed.
Ms. Patten asked what action the Government was taking to ensure that Roma children had access to the mainstream education system.
Ms. Patten asked why victims of domestic violence were being prosecuted and to what extent would their situation be redressed by the new bill?
Ms. Patten asked whether Latvia had any intention of bringing its Constitution into line with the Convention by including a definition of discrimination.
Ms. Patten asked whether the inter-ministerial committee for the drafting of reports concerning human rights was a standing committee.
Ms. Patten asked how much data was available on informal women workers, whose activities were often hidden behind their public role of homemaker.
Ms. Patten asked what the Government was doing to promote a more diversified employment of women in male-dominated sectors other than tourism.
Ms. Patten asked why there was no gender perspective in a major policy like the strategy for economic growth and eradication of poverty.
Ms. Patten asked if the Government planned to review the discriminatory provisions in the law regarding marriage and the family, including child custody.
Ms. Patten asked whether Austria was holding consultations on withdrawing its reservation to article 11 of the Convention, and, if so, at what level those consultations were being held.
Ms. Patten asked the State party whether it had any plans to withdraw its reservations to the Convention or to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention.
Ms. Patten asked whether there was a ministry responsible for labour relations and to what extent the Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Family cooperated with it.
Ms. Patten asked whether the Government had a comprehensive plan to transfer all women detained in protective custody centres into non-punitive voluntary shelters.
Ms. Patten asked whether efforts had been made to assess the impact of the measures set out in the five-year programme(1999-2004) on women working in the agricultural sector.
Ms. Patten asked what priority had been assigned to the repeal of article 9 of the Constitution, which precluded a woman from passing Nepalese nationality to a child or a foreign spouse.
Ms. Patten asked what measures had been taken by the Government to act against rape and other forms of gender-based violence, counter impunity and strengthen accountability.
Ms. Patten asked whether any measures had been taken to remedy the current trend in wage differentials and also in which sectors the broadest wage gap occurred.
Ms. Patten asked in what respect post-compulsory education was compulsory and requested information on the number of women enrolled in adult and evening courses.
Ms. Patten asked whether the family courts were already in operation, if they were modern, family friendly and centralized, and if women had easy access to them and to legal aid.
Ms. Patten asked what measures the Government was taking to address inequalities and how the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value was applied.
Ms. Patten asked whether the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention and the adoption of the amendment to article 20, paragraph 1, would be submitted for the consideration of the new Government.
Ms. Patten asked why the debate on the draft Family Code had been suspended and what progress had been made with the consultations referred to in the responses to the list of issues and questions.
Ms. Patten asked again whether the Government was planning to amend the Equal Opportunities Act to include the words"equal value", as recommended by the International Labour Organization ILO.
Ms. Patten asked what the reporting State was doing to increase women's levels of participation in the labour market and to ensure that they had access to all jobs, not just those in traditional sectors.
Ms. Patten asked what measures were envisaged for improving the situation of rural women, including, in particular, credit programmes, and for reducing gender segregation in employment.