No care economies without domestic workers!
We call on feminist and social movements to join the call to rethink the economy with care at its centre recognising the rights, agency and leadership of domestic worker movements.
Time for Action: Stop the anti-rights infiltration of the UN!
We call on official mandate holders in the United Nations to take urgent action to counter ultraconservative mobilisation against human rights.
Time for Action: Stop the anti-rights infiltration of the UN!
We call on official mandate holders in the United Nations to take urgent action to counter ultraconservative mobilisation against human rights. We can no longer afford to wait!
We demand a feminist recovery from COVID 19!
The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare deep inequalities within and between societies borne from interlocking oppressions that predate the crisis. Responses to the pandemic have demonstrated how market, religious and nationalist fundamentalisms consolidate and collude to expand the political, social and economic power and influence of anti-rights actors and corporations, at the expense of the most marginalized.
On Human Rights Day 2020 we want the UN Human Rights system to survive COVID-19
Through meaningful consultation with feminist, LGBTIQ, and other human rights and social justice movements, the Special Procedures have persistently called on states to uphold rights related to gender and sexuality from a systemic and intersectional lens that addresses the root causes of discrimination.
On Human Rights Day 2020 we want the UN Human Rights system to survive COVID-19
Through meaningful consultation with feminist, LGBTIQ, and other human rights and social justice movements, the Special Procedures have persistently called on states to uphold rights related to gender and sexuality from a systemic and intersectional lens that addresses the root causes of discrimination.
Webinar: Resist fundamentalisms and fascisms in Asia-Pacific
Four activists from Asia Pacific share their analysis of the advances of fundamentalist and fascist forces across the region.
Webinar: Resist fundamentalisms and fascisms in Eastern Europe
Audiocast from our webinar, a conversation with three activists from the region as they share their analysis of the advances of ultraconservative forces across the region.
Our human rights under attack
Human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent, and inalienable. Yet, today ultra conservative actors are targeting the systems established to protect our human rights.
The impact of fundamentalisms and extremisms on cultural rights. Interview with UN Special Rapporteur
In her second report to the Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune considers how the rise of fundamentalisms and extremisms represent major threats to human rights worldwide, and calls for a global rights-based response.