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Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban Rule

In less than a year, the Taliban have decimated the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. Soon after they...

Afghanistan: Taliban’s ‘suffocating crackdown’ destroying lives of women and girls – New report

The report, Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban Rule, also reveals how women who peacefully protested against...
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End violence and serious human rights violations against Afghan refugees

By Alliance for Human Rights in AfghanistanWorld Refugee Day 2022 To mark World Refugee Day, members of the Alliance for...

Indigenous Women, Girls and Gender-Diverse People Are Humans With Rights

Lynne Groulx is a Métis woman from the Treaty Three historic Métis community of Rainy River/Lake of the Woods, and...

Our Continued Solidarity with Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit Individuals

The 2022 federal budget was announced on April 7th and was keenly scrutinized for its gender-based analysis in all domains,...

MOROCCO/WESTERN SAHARA: Investigate Violations Against Raped Activist

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 33/21, UPDATE 3 HERE Sultana Khaya, an activist for Sahrawis’ right to self-determination and her...

Member Perspectives on IWD: Reflections on the Anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings and Ongoing Attacks on Asian Women

Content Warning: Anti-Asian racism and hate crimes, (sexual) gender-based violence, gun violence, death Note: ‘Asian’ is often misused to refer...

International Women’s Day: Dramatic deterioration in respect for women’s rights and gender equality must be decisively reversed

Alarming assaults on women’s rights around the world in 2021/22.   Legal protections dismantled, and women human rights defenders now...

Afghanistan: Global petition calls on international community to stop the Taliban’s suppression of women’s and girls’ rights

More than 80,000 global supporters and activists have signed a petition calling on the international community to urgently stand up...

Reflections on International Women’s Day 2022

As we celebrate the continued accomplishments of women in our communities, heavy on our minds are the enduring challenges for...

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Dignified justice for women human rights defenders in Mexico

By Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas Director 31 January 2021 On 19 October 2001, the human rights defender Digna Ochoa...

Afghanistan: Survivors of gender-based violence abandoned following Taliban takeover – new research

Essential services for women and girl survivors of gender-based violence in Afghanistan have been decimated following the Taliban’s takeover of...

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