[women-rights] Turkey is the first country to ratify the European Convention...
Strasbourg, 14 March 2012 -- Turkey today ratified the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and
View Article[women-rights] UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women conduct first...
GENEVA (15 March 2012) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo, will conduct her first official fact-finding mission to Papua New...
View Article[women-rights] USA: Senate should renew the Violence Against Women Act, urges...
(New York) March 19, 2012 – The US Senate should renew the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) when it votes on the measure later in March 2012, Human Rights Watch said today. The act is the primary...
View Article[women-rights] Afghanistan: Hundreds of Women, Girls Jailed for 'Moral Crimes'
Human Rights Watch: Government Should Target Abusers, Not Victims(Kabul) March 28, 2012 – The Afghan government should release the approximately 400 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan
View Article[women-rights] Still no justice for women survivors of wartime rape in Bosnia...
Amnesty International Press release 29 March 2012 AI Index: PRE01/143/2012 (Sarajevo) It is time the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina enacted its 2010 commitment to ensure justice, truth and...
View Article[hr-education] WFUNA Human Rights Training for University Students (8-11 May...
The World Federation of United Nations Associations is the largest nonprofit organization working globally for a stronger and more effective United Nations. Established in 1946, we represent and...
View Article[women-rights] Pillay urges Barbados to address domestic violence and...
5 April 2012 – The United Nations human rights chief today urged Barbados to adopt more effective legislation measures to combat discrimination and domestic and sexual violence in the country, adding...
View Article[women-rights] USA: House bill puts immigrant women at risk
Committee Vote Undermines Violence Against Women Act (Washington) May 9, 2012 –The full US House of Representatives should reject a dangerous version of a bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act...
View Article[women-rights] Gender and Humanitarian Action e-learning course (30 May-10...
Dear Colleagues, HREA will be offering a new e-learning course Gender and Humanitarian Action from 30 May-10 July 2012.
View Article[women-rights] UN experts call for advancing womens human rights during...
2 July 2012 – A group of independent United Nations experts today called for urgent actions to advance women’s human rights during political transitions, stressing that their equal participation is...
View Article[women-rights] Discrimination against women persists around the globe...
UN WOMEN PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release05 July 2012 Media Inquiries: New York: Mandy Kibel, mandy.kibel[at]unwomen.org, +1 646
View Article[women-rights] Strengthening the protection of women and girls with...
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights11 July 2012“Strengthening protection of women and girls with disabilities from violence continues to be a priority”, said Mona Rishmawi, the Chief of...
View Article[women-rights] Saudi Arabia to send female athletes 2012 Summer Olympic Games
UN envoy on sport for peace lauds Saudi decision on female athletes at Olympics 12 July 2012 – The United Nations envoy on sport for peace today welcomed the decision made by Saudi Arabia to send...
View Article[women-rights] Gender and Human Rights (Foundation Course) (7 November-18...
Dear Colleagues, HREA will be offering a new certificate course Gender and Human Rights (Foundation Course)
View Article[women-rights] CEDAW 53rd session: Committee on the Elimination of...
ROUNDUP RELEASE 19 October 2012 Adopts Concluding Observations and Reservations on Reports of Turkmenistan, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Togo and Chile The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
View Article[women-rights] Slow progress in closing global economic gender gap
World Economic Forum Press release New York, USA, 24 October 2012 – The seventh annual World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2012 ranks
View Article[women-rights] Bosnia and Herzegovina: Time for Republika Srpska to make...
Amnesty International Press release31 October 2012 The full extent of the sexual violence during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina that shattered the lives of thousands of women across the...
View Article[women-rights] First mission to Croatia by the UN Special Rapporteur on...
GENEVA (5 November 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo will visit Croatia from 7 to 16 November 2012 to gain first-hand information on the phenomenon of violence against women.“I...
View Article[women-rights] Belgium: Abused migrant women fear deportation
Legal Loopholes, Inadequate Shelter Access Send Women Back to Abusers (Brussels) November 8, 2012 – The risk of deportation prevents many migrant women who experience domestic violence in Belgium from...
View Article[women-rights] Global campaign targets rape in conflict zones
--> 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Amnesty International Press release23 November 2012 Tens
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