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US: UN rights expert welcomes court ruling reaffirming sex-based protections in education
The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has welcomed a ruling by a federal district court in the United States that...
‘Absolutely the wrong path,’ Türk warns against Afghanistan’s ban on women in NGOs
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has expressed deep alarm over Afghanistan’s recent decision to revoke the licenses of non-governmental organizations...
Iran: UN experts call for strict new hijab law to be repealed
Iranian women and girls now face prison terms of up to 15 years and possible death sentences for failing to wear a hijab, through...
Birth registration increases, but 150 million children still ‘invisible’
A new report from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reveals significant progress in ending the problem of the “invisible” millions of babies each year...
Afghanistan: UN condemns Taliban ban on women attending medical classes
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned a new ban imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan preventing women and girls from attending private...
Mexico: Boom in organized crime making femicide invisible, local activist says
With more than 2,526 women murdered in the past three decades – from 1993 through 2023 – and hundreds disappeared, Ciudad Juárez remains Mexico’s...
$1.4 billion needed for sexual and reproductive health services in crisis-hit countries
The UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, appealed on Thursday for $1.4 billion to safeguard the rights and well-being of women, girls and...
Security Council: Put young women at the heart of peace and security efforts
Peace is in peril worldwide and avenues for diplomatic dialogue are shrinking, but young women peacebuilders are demonstrating that a better world is possible,...
World AIDS Day: UN urges leaders to ‘take the rights path to end AIDS’ by 2030
Ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, but only if global leaders commit to dismantling barriers to healthcare and...
Millions of women and girls forced to flee face high risk of gender-based violence: UNHCR
More than 60 million women and girls worldwide who are forcibly displaced or stateless face high risks of gender-based violence (GBV), but funding for...
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