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Health data, women’s and LGBT rights in spotlight at Human Rights Council

·June 22, 2023·2 min read

The Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, warned that technology enabled easy sharing of sensitive health data of adolescents, migrants and people whose sexual orientation or health status was subject to discrimination. “Accessibility of information through digital tools should not impair the right to have personal health data...

Afghanistan: UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe

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·April 24, 2023·3 min read

The Afghanistan Socio-Economic Outlook 2023, released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), provides an overview of the fallout resulting from the takeover of Afghanistan by its present-day de facto rulers, the Taliban, in August 2021. Immediately after the Taliban assumed power, the Afghan economy collapsed, accelerating Afghanistan’s decade-long slide into...

End ‘alarmist narratives’ on population growth and recognize women’s rights: UNFPA

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·April 19, 2023·2 min read

In its 2023 State of World Population report, UNFPA said that while reaching the milestone of eight billion people on Earth was a reminder of “our unprecedented gains”, concerns over the number were “causing anxiety, and driving more governments to try to influence fertility rates.” However, the agency notes that...

CSW: Advancing women’s rights since 1946

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·March 6, 2023·7 min read

At current rates, it will take almost another three centuries to bring about equality for women and girls. Hobbled by persistent inequalities, about 383 million women and girls live in extreme poverty, and every 11 minutes, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family. These...

Somalia: UN official underlines need to advance women’s participation in public life

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·February 23, 2023·3 min read

Ms. Gbeho said she has welcomed the Federal Government’s continued commitment to implementing the women, peace, and security agenda, as demonstrated by the launch of a new national action plan on Security Council resolution 1325. The landmark document, adopted more than 20 years ago, reaffirms women’s role in peacebuilding and...

Afghanistan: Top UN delegation tells Taliban to end confinement, deprivation, abuse of women’s rights

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·January 21, 2023·4 min read

Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, the Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, and the Assistant Secretary-General for UN political, peacebuilding and peace operations, Khaled Khiari, spend four days on a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan, to engage with Taliban leaders, and “underscore UN solidarity with the Afghan people”, according to a press release...

‘Unfathomable restrictions’ on women’s rights risk destabilizing Afghanistan

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·December 27, 2022·1 min read

“No country can develop – indeed survive – socially and economically with half its population excluded”, said the High Commissioner for Human Rights. “These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of all Afghans but, I fear, pose a risk beyond Afghanistan’s borders”. He...

Indigenous women’s work to preserve traditional knowledge celebrated on International Day |

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·August 9, 2022·4 min read

His appeal comes in a message to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, observed annually on 9 August. This year the focus is on the role indigenous women have in preserving and passing on traditional knowledge. Cultural champions “Indigenous women are knowledge keepers of traditional food systems...

Overturning of Roe v Wade abortion law a ‘huge blow to women’s human rights’ warns Bachelet |

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·June 25, 2022·3 min read

The widely anticipated Supreme Court decision, by six votes to three, was made in the specific case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, and Michelle Bachelet said in a statement that it represents a “major setback” for sexual and reproductive health across the US. The historic decision returns all questions...

Promoting women’s rights, a ‘proven’ strategy for peace and stability |

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·June 15, 2022·5 min read

“At this time of proliferating crises, the international community must pursue proven strategies for peace and stability. Protecting and promoting women’s rights is such a strategy,” he said during the debate, highlighting the positive role regional organizations have played in protecting and advancing the key agenda. ‘A question of power’...