- Gender equality and women’s rights | OHCHR
Promoting women’s human rights and achieving gender equality are core commitments of the UN Human Rights Office We promote women and girls’ equal enjoyment of all human rights, including freedom from violence, sexual and reproductive rights, access to justice, socio-economic equality, and participation in decision-making
- The State of Women’s Rights - Human Rights Watch
Today, for International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch’s Women’s Rights Division Director Macarena Sáez speaks with Amy Braunschweiger about the best and worst of women’s rights last
- Womens health - World Health Organization (WHO)
For example, women and girls face increased vulnerability to HIV AIDS Some of the sociocultural factors that prevent women and girls to benefit from quality health services and attaining the best possible level of health include: unequal power relationships between men and women; social norms that decrease education and paid employment
- Interview: Women’s Rights Under Trump | Human Rights Watch
Donald Trump’s first administration as US president attacked women’s rights across a broad range of issues, including undermining access to birth control, eroding efforts to end the pay gap
- World Report 2025: Afghanistan | Human Rights Watch
Afghan women wait to receive financial assistance from the Afghan Red Crescent Society in Kohsan district, Herat province, September 25, 2024
- OHCHR and women’s human rights and gender equality
Protect and expand the civic space of women human rights defenders and feminist movements; Facilitate equal participation of women, men and people of diverse gender identities in civil, political, economic, social and cultural life; and; Ensure gender equality within the UN Human Rights Office and the United Nations Key documents
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights | OHCHR - UN Human Rights Office
Women’s sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights, including the right to life, the right to be free from torture, the right to health, the right to privacy, the right to education, and the prohibition of discrimination The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have both
- Womens Rights - Human Rights Watch
Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex
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