Announcements

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) is excited to announce the launch of a new blog: What does human rights have to do with it? This blog highlights current events addressing issues related to feminism, economic and social rights, and international human rights tools while introducing new resources and introspective discussions to grapple with social justice challenges in the 21st century.

The summary of the June online dialogue on "Tactics for sustaining the well-being and security of defenders" is now available. This dialogue was an opportunity to explore the innovative ways that practitioners promote and support their well-being, self-care and security as well as their colleagues.

An appeal to women organisations and human rights activists worldwide to condemn the Kurdistan Regional Government and seek justice for Nigar Rahim. 

"Women human rights defenders have always been a part of the human rights movement as well as other social movements, although their role and contribution has not always been recognized,” says Mona Rishmawi, UN Human Rights Chief of Branch, on behalf of UN Human Rights Deputy High Commissioner Kyung-wha Kang, during a panel discussion on women human rights defenders at the latest session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. 

Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.

The "Women’s Right to Nationality Campaign" is rooted in CRTD.A’s Gender Linking and Information Programme (GLIP), a regional initiative launched in 1999 and aiming at building capacities in gender analysis through transformatory training, research, communication and advocacy. The ultimate aim of the campaign is to contribute to Arab women’s inclusive citizenship through the reform of the nationality laws and the full implementation of CEDAW. Find out how you can support the Campaign.

"On the 12.07.2012, within its 52nd regular session /09 - 27.07.2012/, the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) considered the combined fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh report of Bulgaria. The combined State report synthesizes a period of more than 10 years.

The facts of this case date from July 2005, when Beauty Solomon, a woman of Nigerian descent, resident in Spain, was assaulted by national police officers in Palma de Mallorca.

In a landmark judgment for patients' and women's rights, the high court in Namibia on Monday ruled in favour of three women who claimed they had been sterilised without their informed consent. But the judge in the capital, Windhoek, rejected a claim that they had been targeted for sterilisation because they are HIV-positive.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) adopted a Resolution on a Human-Based Approach to Natural Resources Governance at its 51st Ordinary Session held from 18 April to 2 May 2012, in Banjul, the Gambia. This resolution was adopted in the context of the Rio+20 Conference and calls on State Parties to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Right (African Charter) to respect human rights in all matters relating to natural resources governance.