- 85 - Intersectionality is a basic concept for understanding the scope of the general obligations of States parties contained in article 2. The discrimination of women based on sex and gender is inextricably linked with other factors that affect women […]. Discrimination on the basis of sex or gender may affect women belonging to such groups to a different degree or in different ways to men. States parties must legally recognize such intersecting forms of discrimination and their compounded negative impact on the women concerned and prohibit them[, and also] adopt and pursue policies and programmes designed to eliminate such occurrences.459 E.2.b Right to non-discrimination based on financial situation Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 7: Implementing child rights in early childhood, UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/7, September 30, 2005, para. 12. 458 Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. General Recommendation No. 28 on the core obligations of States parties under article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, December 16, 2010, UN Doc. CEDAW/C/GC/28, para. 18. In this regard, the Committee has emphasized that those factors may include a woman’s ethnicity/race, indigenous or minority status, colour, socioeconomic status and/or caste, language, religion or belief, political opinion, national origin, marital and/or maternal status, age, urban/rural location, health status, disability, property ownership, being lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex, illiteracy, seeking asylum, being a refugee, internal displacement, statelessness, migration, heading households, widowhood, living with HIV/AIDS, deprivation of liberty, and being in prostitution, among others. Cf. Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19, July 26, 2017, UN Doc. CEDAW/C/GC/35, para. 12. In addition, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has indicated that: “The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes that women with disabilities may be subject to multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination based on gender and disability.” Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. General Comment No. 1: Article 12: Equal recognition before the law, May 19, 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GC/1, para. 35. 459