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The Human Rights Council (HRC) is the foremost intergovernmental body responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. The 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council takes place from 13 September 2021 - 8 October 2021, in Geneva. The HRC is presented with thematic...

As we witness the unfolding threat to humanity in Afghanistan, we call out international complicity and express our deepest and strongest solidarity with Afghan feminists. Today’s reality in Afghanistan is the result of an ongoing historical cycle of violence by foreign military powers, imperialist...

On 13 July, as part of the 47th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Observatory on the Universality of Rights held a side event, ‘Rights at Risk: Time for Action,’ along with the Center for Reproductive Rights, ILGA World, International Service for Human Rights, International Planned...

The Human Rights Council (HRC) is the UN’s main “political” human rights body, meaning it’s the main place where governments discuss human rights issues, negotiate human rights standards, and hold one another accountable for human rights violations. The HRC meets a few times a year, and recently...

This article was originally published on the LSE WPS blog . As the pandemic continues to expose and deepen inequalities worldwide and we continue to see more extreme weather events, Felogene Anumo draws our attention to the global nature of their disruption. The parallels of power, greed and...

COVID19 measures continue to be hotspots to the spread of disinformation with disastrous consequences for women, sexual and gender minorities. Anti-rights actors have exploited the pandemic to: deliberately share disinformation on dangerous anti-abortion treaments justify coercive state...

Adolescents and young people have the right to information about sexual and reproductive health, which is supported by international law standards. The right to comprehensive sexuality education derives from a range of human rights, such as the right to live free from violence and discrimination,...

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...

Human Rights Day March – 16 Days of Activism. PC: Fiji Women’s Rights Movement The Pacific region has been portrayed as one of the “most aid-dependent in the world”, referring specifically to Official Development Assistance (ODA), which measures resource flows to developing countries. Each year, more than USD 2 billion of foreign aid is...

लेखन और साक्षात्कार: तेनज़िन डोलकर संपादन: मुना गुरुंग चित्रण: प्रियंका सिंह महारजन परिचय पिछले कुछ वर्षों में मैंने दुनिया के विभिन्न हिस्सों से कई असाधारण नारीवादी कार्यकर्ताओं से बात की है। नारीवादी लोगों को संगठित करने और संसाधन जुटाने के संबंध में अतीत और वर्तमान स्थिति के बारे में गहरी...

लेखन और साक्षात्कार: तेनज़िन डोलकर संपादन: मुना गुरुंग चित्रण: प्रियंका सिंह महारजन परिचय पिछले कुछ वर्षों में मैंने दुनिया के विभिन्न हिस्सों से कई असाधारण नारीवादी कार्यकर्ताओं से बात की है। नारीवादी लोगों को संगठित करने और संसाधन जुटाने के संबंध में अतीत और वर्तमान स्थिति के बारे में गहरी...

A conversation on how feminism shapes systemic alternatives and doesn’t On September 23rd and October 13th, 2020, a small group of diverse feminist activists working toward transformative change, met to discuss how feminism has shaped or is currently shaping systemic alternatives. We present these...

Date: 1 - 30 September 2021 REGISTER NOW Do you want to be inspired by the creative resistance strategies of feminists from all over the world? Do you want to discover feminist initiatives that show us how we can all live in a more just world? Do you want to...

Date: 1 - 30 September 2021 Do you want to be inspired by the creative resistance strategies of feminists from all over the world? Do you want to discover feminist initiatives that show us how we can all live in a more just world? Do you want to learn about...

Association Profile: The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is a non-profit, international membership organization founded in 1982 with an average annual budget of approximately $4 million USD. The Association is exempt from federal and state income taxes in the United States of...

Recently, a number of feminists, and feminist organizations met to analyze the root causes of the unequal access to health and life-saving vaccines globally. A key factor contributing to this injustice is the hoarding of vaccines by wealthy Northern States and the interference of powerful...

While the vaccine rollout has made travel and in person meetings more viable for some, access to vaccines is unequal and is deepening inequalities in many places. Similarly, while in some countries, there has been a rush to ‘return to normal’, many places are...

Written and interviewed by Tenzin Dolker Edited by Muna Gurung Illustrations by Priyanka Singh Maharjan Introduction Over the last few years I spoke to a number of incredible feminist activists from different parts of the world. Sharing deep insights about the past and present state of feminist...

Written and interviewed by Tenzin Dolker Edited by Muna Gurung Illustrations by Priyanka Singh Maharjan Introduction Over the last few years I spoke to a number of incredible feminist activists from different parts of the world. Sharing deep insights about the past and present state of feminist...

47th Session of the Human Rights Council Side Event Date: 13 July, 2:00pm - 3:30pm CEST Moderator: Ishita Dutta, IWRAW Asia Pacific and the Observatory on the Universality of Rights Speakers: Morena Herrera, Colectiva Feminista para el Desarrollo Local, El Salvador Melissa Upreti, UN Working Group...