Announcements
GPEDC Steering Committee Meets a Year After HLF4
A year after the High Level Forum IV on Aid Effectiveness was held in Busan, the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) will meet to determine priorities of the Global Partnership under the new framework of the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (BPd).
Read more...Letter of Solidarity with the People of Gaza
For several days, the Israeli army has intensified bombings and incursions into the Palestinian territory of the Gaza strip, causing the death of several Palestinian civilians, including children.
Read more...CEJIL has launched a new webpage on the Inter-American System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
CEJIL has launched a new webpage to provide information and encourage a more participatory and transparent debate on the Inter-American System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
Read more...Violence against women, a war legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina – UN Special Rapporteur
United Nations human rights expert Rashida Manjoo said that heightened domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina is linked in many cases to the legacy of the war, and women and men suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and other war-related mental health problems as well as unemployment, poverty or addiction.
Read more...Grave human rights abuses in Honduras prompt an International Call to Action
Honduras, considered to be one of the world's most dangerous countries, is plagued by assassinations of journalists, lawyers and activists.
Read more...GAMBIA: Justice prevails in a two year-long judicial harassment case against two Women Human Rights Defenders
The Observatory welcomes the vindication of two women human rights defenders in Gambia following two years of judicial harassment.
Read more...Letter to Ms. Michelle Bachelet: Women from Around the World Call for Women’s Participation in the Peace Talks on Colombia and Mali
"Dear Ms. Bachelet,
We, the participants at the various side events that the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)-International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) organized in New York during the 12th anniversary of UNSCR 1325, and women from around the world express our deep concern over the absence of women at the negotiation table in the ongoing peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Read more...Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA): 79 Members and 2 Babies Arrested for WATER Protest
"Seventy nine members and two babies are under arrest at Bulawayo Central police station for staging a peaceful protest at the City Council Tower block on the water issue. At noon 12 November 2012.
Read more...Jailed Dissident Iranian Lawyer Allowed To See Her Children
Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been allowed to see her children in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for the first time in weeks.
Read more...Daghestani Lawyer Gets Swedish Humanitarian Prize
A prominent female lawyer from Russia's troubled Republic of Daghestan has received the Per Anger Prize in the Swedish city of Gothenborg.
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