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Jun 12, 2024 · We work with survivors, women human rights defenders, women’s civil society organizations, and governments to address sexual violence in conflict with urgency, to dismantle structural gender inequality and discrimination, and to prevent sexual violence from happening in the first place. We advocate for survivor-centred services and justice.
Jun 4, 2024 · Feminist climate justice seeks a world where everyone can flourish on a healthy and sustainable planet, where those in power serve and are accountable to all, particularly marginalized groups such as women and girls. Achieving this will take action on many fronts—to strengthen democracy, human rights, and global collaboration.
1 day ago · On Friday, at the UN Human Rights Council's (OHCHR) first panel for the annual full-day discussion on women's rights, The UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday told a Human Rights Council panel that it’s time to eliminate laws and practices that contribute to “economic violence” against women and girls. During his opening statement ...
May 31, 2024 · A Call to Action: women, religion, violence, and power by Jimmy Carter Call Number: HQ1236 .C375 2014 Border Politics: social movements, collective identities, and globalization by Nancy A. Naples (Editor); Jennifer Bickham Mendez
1 day ago · Madame Vice-President,Excellencies,Distinguished delegates,We owe the women’s rights movement some of the most extraordinary progress in human rights of our generation. And it is important to honour and celebrate this progress.Yet the very fact we are here today, to discuss the persistent scourge of gender-based violence in one of its insidious forms, shows that progress is both hard won ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Religious freedom for women is a key component to global peace, Latter-day Saint leader says. Relief Society General President Camille N. Johnson asks leaders to unleash the power of a global sisterhood by supporting freedom of religion or belief for women around the world. Published: June 20, 2024, 9:34 p.m. MDT.
1 day ago · The second consultation in a series of subregional meetings preparing for the UNECE Regional Review Meeting in Geneva on October 21-22, 2024, took place on June 25. During this event, 130 civil society representatives joined forces to gather insights and recommendations that will inform the regional review process ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action ...
