to apprehend the culprit, the brother of the victim, and to monitor the progress of treatment of the victim. The Commission also directed the SMS hospital to contlnue to provide medical assistance to the victim and report to the Commission. Oisprrlthr In YaQsmkyLnave to the Employeas of Private Schools:Weat Bengal (Casm No.1B 2 9 W 7 ) A complaint was received by the Commission alleging that management of certain private s c h d s in West Bengal had not been prwiding maternity have benefis to the teaching and non-teaching women employees. The Secretary, Department af Education, Govt. of West Bengal on notice from the Commission submitted a report based on inquires made by the Departmentwith regard to the three specific categories of private schools, where the provisions of maternity leave allegedly were not enforced, The report =id that different provisions were made for diflerent categories of schools and that the schools were strictly following the rules which were applicable to each of these categories. On consideration of the report from the Secretary, Department of Education and examining the report of the Ministry of Labour on the subject of maternity leave, the Commission observed that there was no uniformity in the rulesl 4 8 framed by different boards like the ICSE and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education with regard to maternity leave and that they were at variance with the maternity leave mles framed by the Government. It was noted that, in some cases, the existing rulesl codes had not been followed. The Commlssion directed the Government of West Bengal to undertake a review of the existing rules / codes and to bring about uniformity and also to incorporatethe provision of grant of 120 days maternity leave to the teaching and non-teaching women employees of various educational institutions. The Commission further stated that it was up to the euthorities of the State Government to restrict the facility of maternity leave to ?WO child births, if it thought necessary and appropriate. Though women mstitute half the world's population, there is still no society in which they enjoy full equality with men. Patriarchal attitudes and consequent power imbalances have adversely affacted women culturally, socially, politically and economically. The Universal Declaration of Human Righta, reaffirming faith in the dlgnlty and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women, envisaged the enjoyment d such rights without any distinction of any kind, including discrimination on the basis of sex (Preamble, Article 2). However, gender discrlrnination constitutes one of the most pervasive forms of violation of human rights. In the llght of this fact, the Vienna Oeclaratlon of 1993, explicitly asserted that the human rights of women are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights and eradication of all discrimination on grounds of sex are priority objectives of the internationalcommunity. State Parties have thus undertaken to eradicate this evil under various