Announcements
New global development agenda must have human rights at its core
World leaders must reject an aid-based model of development and instead pursue an approach that puts human rights and justice at its core, 19 non-governmental organizations urged ahead of a High-Level Panel report to the UN on the future of sustainable development.
Read more...Open Letter to the Government of Bahrain: Respect the Rights of Al-Khawaja Family
Maryam Al-Khawaja, a 24 year old woman human rights defender from Bahrain, has been doing extensive work on documenting human rights violations prior to and during the February 14th uprising in Bahrain.
Read more...Continued Militarization: Increased Violence Against Women Human Rights Defenders During Dispersal of Cabinet Sit-in... Women Activists Beaten, Brutalized and Subjected to Sexual Violence
The targeting of Women human rights defenders seen over the course of an entire day, when the sit-in at the cabinet building was dispersed at dawn on December 16, is a continuation and clear escalation of militaristic policies aimed at Women human rights defenders, employed consistently by the former regime prior to the January 25 revolution.
Read more...5 Day Workshop in Nepal kick started research on Domestic Violence and Human Rights
From the 29th of April until the 3rd of May, WOREC Nepal, one of the co-developing organisation of DOVA, the Human Rights Assessment Instrument on Domestic Violence, and DOVA writer and trainer Loeky Droesen, hosted a 5 day DOVA Nepal kick off workshop.
Read more...Joanna Weston's We All Belong
We proudly present Joanna Weston as ambassador for PBI Netherlands. Joanna wrote especially for us the song "We All Belong" for which proceeds will support the work of Peace Brigades International.
Read more...Gender Election Monitoring Mission Deploys International Observers to Observe Elections in Pakistan on 11 May
Gender Concerns International kindly thanks the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan for welcoming their Gender Election Monitoring (GEM) Mission.
Read more...High-Level Task Force Policy Recommendations for ICPD Beyond 2014: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All
The High-Level Task Force for ICPD, the only high-level group in the world dedicated to advancing a forward-looking agenda for the ICPD review process, is urging governments and the international community to take much bolder action to meet and build on commitments made at the International Conference on Population Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994.
Read more...Youth Music and Sexuality Project Debuts in Haifa
As an initiative of alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, the project includes a collection of songs especially produced to open conversations around sexual and gender diversity, including LGBTQ experiences.
Read more...Canadian and international sex workers denied leave to intervene in Supreme Court Case on Prostitution Laws
Supreme Court Justice Richard Wagner has denied several prominent sex worker groups the opportunity to intervene in the Bedford v. Canadaappeal, to be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada on June 13th, 2013.
Read more...Civil Society African Common Position on ICPD
Key Messages of the Civil Society African Common Position Paper on the International Conference on Population Development (ICPD)
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