Landmark UN resolution recognizes the sexual rights of adolescents and young people
The world currently has the largest generation in history of adolescents and youth aged 10-24 years. On 27th April this year, during its 45th Session, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) adopted a landmark Resolution on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents and youth.
Food Insecurity and the Energy Crisis Result in Grabbing Land from Women
Once the most frequented source of poster images depicting starving children, Ethiopia is now in the media for a new reason: as the go-to destination, ironically, for foreign companies and governments leasing land to grow food and biofuels.
Internet and Communication Rights: The Forgotten Womens Rights
Each day in Cairo, Noha Atef, adds entries to her blog Torture in Egypt, in which she documents human rights abuses by the police. She adds photos and tags individual officers who are alleged torturers by name. Atef's blog stands as a database of evidence, used in court cases to convict authorities. She lives with her family. In their household, her parents routinely receive anonymous phone calls containing threats to rape and kill her if she does not stop blogging.
Nepal Set to Recognize Third Gender
Following the signing of a major peace agreement, key political parties in Nepal are scheduled to conclude a constitutional reform process this month. The complicated drafting process and years of preceding negotiations have finally enabled longtime enemy factions, including Maoists, to come to the table together.
Unprecedented Gains for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights at the UN Today
Last month, on September 28, women's rights activists throughout Latin America undertook actions marking the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion. The protests and policy proposals were the latest steps in several decades of organizing.
?Iraq fatigue" conceals the efforts of women human rights defenders in the other Tahrir Square
Today, like every other Friday since February, Iraqi citizens will gather in Tahrir Square ? in Baghdad, not Cairo ? to protest corruption, poor government, lack of basic services, high unemployment rates and constraints on freedom of expression.
Boundless Implications for ILOs Recent Recognition of Domestic Work
For decades, women's rights advocates and their allies have been organizing for what the International Labor Organization (ILO) acknowledged in its recent Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers: domestic work as work and domestic workers as workers entitled to rights.
Tunisia Poised Again as the Starter Domino, say Women There
As revolutionaries continue to fight for democracy in Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen, Tunisia ? the domino that activated the Arab Spring ? has taken another step forward, thanks to women's rights advocates there and their allies.
Austerity Measures Will Further Strangle Greeces Women
This week, the Greek Parliament will vote on a number of austerity measures, including tax hikes, spending cuts and privatization of public industries. These measures are conditions of the ?12 billion latest installment of a ?110 billion loan from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which the Greek government needs to pay its bills over the next few months.
Redefining security: human rights and economic justice
Security is impossible without people's freedom to organize and defend their rights, a cornerstone of the exercise of citizenship. History gives us ample evidence of this.