Announcements
Authorities Must Guarantee Justice, Effective Protection Measures & Appropriate Reparations for Victims of the Genocide & their Families During the Ríos Montt Trial
As more 200 Women Human Rights Defenders from Mesoamerica, we recognize and support the historic trial of Efraín Ríos Montt and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez for their role in the Guatemalan genocide
Read more...Bali Declaration by Parliamentarians and Civil Society on the MDG Acceleration and the Post 2015 Development Agenda
65 members of parliament/ legislature and 44 civil society leaders from 25 countries from Asia and the Pacific hereby adopt this Declaration, in presence of 10 parliamentarians from Africa and the United Kingdom as solidarity delegations, 4 civil society representatives from other regions and 58 representatives of development partner organizations.
Read more...Treaty makes it Illegal to sell Weapons if there is Risk of Gender-based Violence
Today, governments adopted the text of the first ever Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the United Nations in New York. The treaty, which prohibits the sale of arms if there is a risk that the weapons could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law, is the first ever treaty that recognizes the link between gender-based violence and the international arms trade.
Read more...Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly – World Social Forum 2013 29 March 2013, Tunisia
We are sending belowthe Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly held on the 29 March 2013, during the World Social Forum in Tunisia. We will continue to debate a common global day of action and we invite all of you to share in this list your dates of mobilisation and actions that will be carried out around 2013 as well as proposals about the common day.
Read more...Women's Caucus Statement Bali High Level Panel Meeting
There will be no development, there will be no progress, unless there is a clear and uncompromising commitment to women's rights and gender equality and justice.
Read more...Adoption of an unprecedented resolution at the UN to end the financial strangulation of human rights NGOs
Today, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council gave a strong response to the increasing trend of curtailing - when not criminalizing - the activities of human rights defenders by limiting their right to access funding, especially when they come from foreign countries. The Council adopted by consensus an unprecedented resolution, introduced by Norway and co-sponsored by 62 States, affirming that “no law should criminalise or de-legitimise activities in defence of human rights on account of the origin of funding”.
Read more...We Will Not be Mainstreamed into a Polluted Stream: Feminist Visions of Structural Transformations for Achieving Women's Human Rights and Gender Equality in the 2015 Development Agenda
This statement was delivered by women's rights organizations at the international NGO conference "Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda" that was held from 20-22 March 2013 in Bonn, Germany.
Read more...WHRDs are given official recognition at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
The Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC) congratulates the 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on reaching consensus and adopting the Agreed Conclusions.
Read more...Guatemala: Genocide Trial Begins: Be Part of this Historic Process
Today (March 19, 2013), the Genocide trial begins in Guatemala. Efraín Ríos Montt, along with his head of military intelligence, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, are accused of ordering operations in the Ixil triangle which included the slaughter of 1,771 Guatemalans displacing 29,000 and 1,485 acts of sexual violence.
Read more...OWFI statement for IWD 2013
After 10 years of destruction and corruption in Iraq. Our only hope is in a cultural and political revolution
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