A/HRC/44/51/Add.1 Annex Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls on its visit to Greece Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Context .......................................................................................................................................... 3 III. Legal, policy and institutional framework..................................................................................... 4 A. IV. V. Ratification of international instruments and cooperation with international human rights mechanisms .......................................................................................................................... 4 B. Constitutional, legal and policy framework .......................................................................... 5 C. Institutional framework......................................................................................................... 6 Economic and social life ............................................................................................................... 7 A. Participation of women in the labour force and economic leadership among women .......... 7 B. Education and the media hold the potential to shift gender stereotypes ............................... 10 Political and public life ................................................................................................................. 11 A. Underrepresentation of women in political and public life: political participation and representation in public institutions ............................................................................... 11 Non-governmental organizations and the women’s movement ............................................ 13 Domestic violence ......................................................................................................................... 13 A. Responding to gender-based violence against women.......................................................... 13 B. Preventing gender-based violence against women ............................................................... 15 Greater vulnerability and exclusion experienced by marginalized groups of women ................... 15 A. Migrant and refugee women ................................................................................................. 15 B. Roma women ........................................................................................................................ 16 C. Women in prison................................................................................................................... 17 Health ............................................................................................................................................ 18 Voluntary termination of pregnancy and caesarean sections without medical necessity .............. 18 Conclusion and recommendations................................................................................................. 18 A. 18 B. VI. VII. VIII. IX. 2 Conclusions ..........................................................................................................................