THIS IS A LANDMARK HIGH-LEVEL STATEMENT BY THE FORMER UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE, JUAN MENDEZ, STATING THAT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IS A FORM OF TORTURE. This Statement continues to be a singular and significant reference in advocacy against Female Genital Mutilation – FGM. Statement by Juan E. Méndez Special Rapporteur on . Learn More
Mexico – Alternative Report on Indigenous Women’s Rights in Mexico Submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee
Cultural Survival’s report to CEDAW brings attention to areas of concern for Indigenous women in Mexico, as well as detailing where difficulties facing them are increasing or decreasing across the country. It finds that funding to federal agencies tasked with aiding Indigenous women is often insufficient or misspent, Indigenous women’s land rights . Learn More
Women & Breast Cancer – Song & Video of Inspiration
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Call for Submissions on Alleged Violations of Women’s Human Rights for CSW 2019
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Turkey – 103 Women Elected to Turkish Parliament in June 24 Poll
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GENDER EQUALITY?? EU Leaders Migration Summit – June 2018
uropean Union leaders pose for a group photo at the start of an emergency European Union leaders summit on immigration at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 24, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool June 24, 2018 - . Learn More
Tanzania – Widows’ Compounded Discrimination – Stripped of Land – Need Support
By Dr. Monica Mhoja, Landesa Tanzania Program Director June 2018 - THE WORD “KUTULIJIWA” is one I was familiar with growing up in northern Tanzania. In the Sukuma language, it means an outcast, a person banned from a community for being a witch. Over the course of my career as an attorney, it is also a word that I have often heard used to . Learn More
Lebanon – Profile of Young Woman & Forced Marriage
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Power & Protection: Defending Rights in Hostile Contexts – Gender
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Victims Behind Bars: Identifying & Addressing the Sex Trafficking of Women
By Barbara Granner, National Commission on Correctional Health Care 06/25/2018 The stereotypical “prostitute” as portrayed in movies and TV shows is a tough, hardened, street-smart professional. According to experts who spoke at the Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in April, that image is far from reality. In fact, . Learn More
Venezuela – Continued Impunity Amidst Serious Human Rights Situation – OAS & UN Reports – Protracted Crises for Women
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Kenya – How Outlawing FGM in Kenya Has Driven It Underground & Led to Its Medicalization
Damaris Seleina Parsitau*- June 19, 2018 The fight against female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been fraught with both success and failure, resistance and acceptance. Since Kenya banned the practice in 2011, FGM/C is now increasingly conducted underground, secretly in homes or in clinics by healthcare providers and workers. The . Learn More