Announcements
2013 Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Award winners
For the past 22 years, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has paid tribute to women journalists who risk their lives to report the news with its Courage in Journalism Awards.
Read more...Tunisia: Revise the Draft Constitution
Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) should modify articles in the new draft constitution that threaten human rights. Human Rights Watch analyzed the draft constitution to identify human rights concerns.
Read more...Women’s Rights Still Denied in Latin America
Latin American states are still failing to provide guarantees for women’s educational, sexual and reproductive rights, according to activists from different regions of the world meeting in the Mexican capital.
Read more...AWID launches French and Spanish versions of the Online directory of responses for WHRDs at Risk
In solidarity with Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) everywhere, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and the Urgent Responses Working Group of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition is pleased to launch the Online Directory of Responses for Women Human Rights Defender at risk in French and Spanish.
Read more...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.
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