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Joint Civil Society Statement Marking the One Year Anniversary of the Announcement of a Legal Initiative to Hold Afghanistan Accountable Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
25 Sep 2025 18:08 GMT
One year ago, on 25 September 2024, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands announced their intention to hold Afghanistan accountable for violations of women’s and girls’ rights under CEDAW. The initiative has the potential to culminate in a case …
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United Nations CEDAW documentation ‘never mentioned trans women’
27 Sep 2025 09:33 GMT
… Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) “never mentioned” transgender women …
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Will we ever get it right?
26 Sep 2025 20:21 GMT
… to children, torture and against discrimination against women. These in themselves are violations …
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‘My Husband Rapes Me Every Night’: How a Volunteer-Led Organization is Ending the Cycle of Violence in Bhavnagar, India
26 Sep 2025 12:54 GMT
… Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which includes marital rape …
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Policy experts urge rights-based approach in South Sudan
26 Sep 2025 12:32 GMT
… Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the Convention on …
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How gender equality boosts the economy
26 Sep 2025 05:26 GMT
… achieved by reducing labour market discrimination against women and black men, and by …
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A New Report on Rape Laws Shows the Need for Urgent Reforms in North Africa
25 Sep 2025 20:22 GMT
… Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by …
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Trump–Khan Feud Rekindled as London Mayor Accuses U.S. President of ‘Islamophobia’
25 Sep 2025 19:37 GMT
… of 1996, raising concerns of discrimination against women and homosexuals.
The controversy comes …
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MEPs urge support for Iranian civil society three years after Mahsa Amini's death
24 Sep 2025 22:19 GMT
… regime's impunity.
"Discrimination against women continues. Several women are on …
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Yale Law School’s Claudia Flores urges UN to act now on women’s rights
24 Sep 2025 20:51 GMT
… U.N. Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls, Flores said in …